On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 at 09:52, Paul A. Bristow via Boost
-----Original Message----- From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Mateusz Loskot via Boost Sent: 04 July 2018 00:27 To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: Mateusz Loskot Subject: [boost] Guidelines on copyright notice maintenance
Hi,
The license guidelines [1] include instructions on "How should Boost programmers apply the license to source and header files?"
Unless I've missed it, there seem to be lack of guidelines about how to maintain (existing) copyright notices.
I don't aim to resurrect the old lengthy thread from Sept 2015 on validity of copyright notices. In that thread, however, some guidelines or conventions were expressed:
[2] "because copyright is only claimed for changes meeting a certain threshold of originality" [3] "It's up to those people to add a line if they so decide. Copyright only covers expressions of creativity."
Those suggests, there seem to be common understanding on if/how/when it is recommended or even necessary to update copyright notice in a source file of a Boost library.
Wouldn't it be helpful to captured those as guidelines in the BSL FAQ.
Yes.
FYI, here is the proposed update: https://github.com/boostorg/website/pull/367 Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net