Re: [boost] Making copyright holders easier to parse

-----Original Message----- From: Boost On Behalf Of Vinnie Falco via Boost Sent: 28 July 2019 00:43 To: boost@lists.boost.org List Cc: Vinnie Falco Subject: Re: [boost] Making copyright holders easier to parse

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 6:23 AM Glen Fernandes via Boost wrote:

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Although I'm all for making the attributions and licensing consistent :-)

I am very much in favor of this as long as it does not require any of my source files to change.

+1 Because we have a massive Continuous Integration system with many compilers and platform that picks up changes to source files, *any* change to source, test or documentation files is like to trigger a massive recompilation and rebuild and retest and redocumentation. That will cause a load of machine time (already insufficient).. I think that we are pretty much following the guidelines https://www.boost.org/users/license.html (though they do not mention the common case of multiple authors). We (and anyone) can check the results of the inspect program to confirm that all files have a Boost copyright claim. All copyright lines have either a name or a date after the word copyright. Nobody has a digit in their name? Surely this isn't too difficult to parse? Any that cause trouble can be fixed individually if you tell us? Paul Paul A. Bristow Prizet Farmhouse Kendal, Cumbria LA8 8AB UK