Re: [boost] Making copyright holders easier to parse

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 2:57 AM Hans Dembinski via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

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On 27. Jul 2019, at 06:51, Bo Persson via Boost wrote:

Sounds like a good idea.

Old US copyright laws specifically mention "Copyright" and "Copr." as proper forms, but says nothing about "Copyright:".

Wouldn't want to stuble on such a technicality, would we? :-)

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

Right.

The best proposal I have seen in this thread is to consistently apply the template from https://www.boost.org/users/license.html everywhere. If it is consistently applied, it is easy to parse automatically, even if the format is not particularly parser-friendly.

As was said before, we need a new check in the Boost test matrix https://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/summary.html to enforce consistency, since the inspection reports http://boost.cowic.de/rc/docs-inspect-develop.html are currently not enforced.

License and copyright errors are by far the most common problems found by the inspection tool, so by adding a check to the test matrix we could clean that up a lot.

Maybe.. It should be easy though. It just takes someone to add such a check to < https://github.com/boostorg/boost/blob/develop/status/boost_check_library.py

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