On February 20, 2018 3:24:55 AM EST, Niall Douglas via Boost
Anyway, as interesting as all this is, this is why Boost is part of the Software Freedom Conservancy who employ lawyers specifically for questions of this nature. The only reason that my specific use of SO snippets was noticed is because I added a comment regarding them. All other use of SO snippets are by definition uncommented, and are not being noticed. That makes them far more dangerous and pernicious if my understanding of copyright law is wrong.
If Boost feels that this is a problem, the SFC lawyers should be asked and on the basis of their advice, the page at http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html should be updated to specifically give advice on the use of small, non-standalone code snippets such as from StackOverflow. A commercial program which identifies code snippets borrowed from the internet should be employed to scan the Boost source code, and all infringements fixed.
I throw the problem back to you, boost-steering.
+1 However, mentioning that on this list is not the same as actually raising this issue on the Steering Committee's discussion group. -- Rob (Sent from my portable computation device.)