-----Original Message----- From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Gennadiy Rozental Sent: 15 September 2015 06:45 To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] Copyright-less licence references
Hi,
I suggest we should drop "Copyright Joe Coder 20xx" from all our files. My reasons:
* git/svn history provides much better copyright attribution. Each developer has a copyright on
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authored. As it is these copyright disclaimers are very frequently wrong.
* I am never clear what this line really mean. Copyright Joe Coder 2010 - does this mean Joe has copyright up to 2010, starting 2010 or only in 2010? Should one keep updating these disclaimers every January?
* For libraries which are maintained by multiple developers and/or which were moved from one maintainer to another maintainer - these disclaimers either wrong or pain to maintain.
* these are just a clutter with no real value
IMO we should just keep licence reference and that's it:
// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. // (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at // http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
Gennadiy
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