At 06:07 AM 8/30/2004, John Maddock wrote:
Some of the examples in bjam v2 are actually taken verbatim from the QT libraries examples, and currently have no copyright or license declaration on them at all.
Vladimir asks:
"Will
/* This file is part of Qt and is available under the Q Public License, available from http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/license.html */
be enough to make inspect tool happy. If we're really going to be extra-picky, I don't think I can add any "Copyright" string to the file I don't own."
Is adding such a string acceptable? Clearly we need to do something, but
what?
I think Vladimir has the right idea; add a comment that indicates who does own the file, and where the license resides, and teach the inspect program to recognize that referral. You wouldn't be adding a copyright; just a reference to some external material that we have deemed an acceptable alternative to the Boost license and/or a explicit copyright message. --Beman