Thijs (M.A.) van den Berg
On 15 Sep 2015, at 15:51, Filip Konvička
wrote:
I think removing the copyright notice would not deprive anyone of
their
rights, and probably is an allowed modification under the Boost Software License (whereas removing the BSL notice is not).
And it looks like I'm wrong here - the BSL explicitly requires the copyright notices to be retained (as Jonathan correctly pointed out).
I think this is pretty much it.
The copyright holder is the one that (can) release the source under various licenses, in this case the boost license.
Without a copyright statement you would not know who released the code under the boost license, and it that
And with this source code comment you would? What does it say about who released this code? I do not release the code - boost community does. Does that mean we all hold copyright to everything?
case the boost license might be invalid. That's the reason that the boost license requires a copyright statement, so that people can find the copyright holder and check if he indeed released the code under the boost license.
So according to you I can make a copy of boost, make a change to all source files claiming I authored them in 1995 and release it? And that would make me a copyright holder? Gennadiy