
John Maddock's prodding with regard to copyright notices in Boost's sources got me thinking about the copyright notices in its documentation. Currently, some docs have a copyright notice using the Boost Software License, some have a permissive license other than the BSL, and some just say "Copyright (c) DATE AUTHOR". I haven't done a detailed survey; that observation is just based on a random browsing of the Boost docs. I generally believe in using the same copyright license for the documentation as the one used for the software, at least in the context of Free/Open Source Software. That may or may not be entirely appropriate considering the BSL's particular language concerning compiled software. Has this issue been raised in the past? Was there a consensus? If not, what do you think about it, now? Thanks, Jonathan Brandmeyer