Re: [boost] Making copyright holders easier to parse

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. Best regards, Hans