On 08/05/2017 12:19 PM, Paul A. Bristow via Boost wrote:
Boost license does not protect *you* much.
What it does do is protect *everyone* from any attempt to by Microsoft or others to patent or claim copyright on the code or idea, and thus preventing or restricting its use.
This means unless the MIT license is compatible with the Boost license then they are infringing the copyright agreement.
Boost provides excellent evidence of prior art, not just from being in a release, but also being the subject of public discussions on Boost.
(If Boost had published the SHE exception handling, for example, the World would have been a Better Place ;-) And it would have been even better place if software patents had been very much more restricted - I blame the US and UK and EU patent offices, and too many lawyers in parliaments.)
That is no excuse for Microsoft not giving due credit to your work. You can't claim any recompense but it is very bad manners, in this case bad corporate manners.
I'd ask for your work to be recognised and referenced. I believe Herb to be an honourable man, so I'd try him first.
Contacting popular people is a very hard thing to do as he probably receives tons of emails already. Regards, -Phil