"Oliver Kowalke via Boost" wrote:
I encountered a open source project that is released under GPL and uses Boost - that's OK, because GPL and Boost license should be compatible. ... Additionally, because they copied the code from several Boost files into one, they mixed up copyright statements. As a result, some people get copyright on code they never wrote.
I don't believe copyright notices have any bearing on who actually owns the copyright. Someone else getting the copyright for your work because someone put their name in the copyright notice would be absurd. The Berne convention does not require a copyright notice to retain copyright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention This list shows when the convention came into effect in different countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_international_copyright_agr... But as Andrey notes, copyright notices can be useful in practice. Regards, Niklas Angare