On 15.09.2015 19:46, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
Rene Rivera
writes: I suggest you stop this thread as it's not going to help anyone. The only way to answer these questions to any satisfaction is to retain legal counsel. Which is what we did to get the license and copyright guidelines we have now. If you want to change the guidelines it might be more beneficial to bring up the issues with the steering committee and the SFC.
Well, I am bring it up. Steering committee is free to discuss, respond or ignore. As it stands my source code either lying almost all the time, or missing copyright or I need to keep updating 700+ file all the times. Unless this changes, I am inclined to change disclaimer everywhere to "Copyright 2001 Boost.Test authors" and be done with that.
I suppose, you could do that, if all current copyright holders agree to that in written form and the "Boost.Test authors" is either a list of persons documented somewhere and bundled with the library, or a legal body that owns the copyright. Otherwise I feel such a change would be illegal and not fair in a common sense. In any case, I wouldn't advise such changes without consulting a lawyer. Take note that authors live in different countries and Boost is an international project, so you'll have to abide the international law.