On Jul 24, 2004, at 8:47 PM, Stephan T. Lavavej wrote:
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.
Thanks!
* 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.)
Doug Gregor
This one should now be fixed...
* "Files that could be converted to the Boost Software License" should be. There are a lot of files there.
I'll see if I can come up with a program to do this automagically. We have to be _very_ careful with this, though.
* 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.
I'll take care of this.
* From what I've heard on the list, "William E Kempf" hasn't been seen in quite some time. He should be contacted.
If we could, we would.
* The following organizations (or people with really, really weird names) hold copyrights to non-BSL libraries. They should be contacted.
Free Software Foundation Inc
They're not going to agree to the BSL, that's for sure :) This only affects the Graphviz parser in the BGL, which is due for a rewrite soon anyway.
Indiana University
Looking into this...
The Trustees of Indiana University
Same as above.
University of Notre Dame
Also looking into this,
uBLAS developers
I doubt this is a legal entity...
* Why are new libraries, such as Boost Algorithm, being accepted without the BSL? At the very least, Boost could try to not move backwards.
We should make this a requirement, I think.
* 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.
Probably just a form of license not matched by one of the regexes in bcp. Easily fixed, with a little time investment.
* 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.
Sure, but it might be more useful to have that scorecard showing which libraries are completely under the BSL. Both are easy enough to implement. Doug