I figured out how to use bcp. See the results at: http://stl.nuwen.net/bsl.html I ran it on all of the directory names in libs, in current Boost CVS, except for CVS, python, and serialization - the last two gave errors. Low-hanging fruit is thus revealed: * I know I've seen the following people post to the Boost list recently. They should be contacted about adding themselves to blanket-permission.txt. Andrei Alexandrescu Gennadiy Rozental Joaquín Mª López Muñoz Vladimir Prus Robert Ramey - http www rrsd com Howard Hinnant Thorsten Ottosen Joel de Guzman (I just compared "Authors we need to move to the BSL" to the last couple of pages of Boost list archives, visually.) * Some people have files under the BSL, but not all of them. Example (I'm picking on him because I've talked to him): Jeff Garland. He's listed as having files under the BSL, and he's not in "Authors we need for the BSL", so he doesn't have any non-BSL files. However, many date_file files are listed in "Files With No Recognisable License". * The following people ARE in blanket-permission.txt, but have used these alternate names in Boost code. Their names should be changed to their canonical forms. (And then the appropriate files should be BSLed.) Dave Abrahams Doug Gregor Dr John Maddock David Moore Jeremy G Siek John R Bandela * "Files that could be converted to the Boost Software License" should be. There are a lot of files there. * Some non-BSL files display copyrights by: Boost org boost org It should be figured out who actually wrote these. I don't think "boost org" is a real organization. * From what I've heard on the list, "William E Kempf" hasn't been seen in quite some time. He should be contacted. * The following organizations (or people with really, really weird names) hold copyrights to non-BSL libraries. They should be contacted. Cadenza New Zealand Ltd CrystalClear Software Inc Free Software Foundation Inc Grenoble Hewlett-Packard Company Housemarque Oy Indiana University Silicon Graphics Computer Systems Inc The Trustees of Indiana University Universite Joseph Fourier University of Notre Dame iMAGIS-GRAVIR UJF uBLAS developers * Why are new libraries, such as Boost Algorithm, being accepted without the BSL? At the very least, Boost could try to not move backwards. * Some files - boost/iterator_adaptors.hpp, a huge (all?) chunk of boost/mpl, and lots of stuff in libs/config/test - have no recognizable copyright holder. That should be fixed. * Maybe bcp could add "Percent Converted" to the report? It'd be nice to see how many files have been converted to the BSL out of how many files there are, total. Stephan T. Lavavej (Microsoft Software Design Engineer who really, really wants to use Boost at work)