
On Jul 21, 2004, at 2:28 AM, Guillaume Melquiond wrote:
Le mer 21/07/2004 à 06:44, Doug Gregor a écrit : Could you explain how you did get to this list of authors? I must say I'm quite surprised to be in it. When looking at the various files, it seems to me you are the only copyright holder of all header files in boost/function. So it shouldn't be a problem to switch to the BSL.
You can't use boost/function.hpp without its dependencies, so we need to consider those as well. It turns out that quite a few files included by boost/function.hpp aren't (and can't) be under the BSL.
Or maybe you are considering that somebody who corrected a small typo at a given time now holds a copyright on these files? I may be wrong but I don't think it is necessary: unless the person did put a "copyright" line in the file, I think the person willingly relinquish its copyright on the trivial modifications. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
As Alexander points out, trivial modifications aren't copyrightable.
I won't do neither A nor B. But I agree for the files of Boost.Function on which I hold a copyright to be converted to the Boost Software License 1.0.
Actually, due to a silly bug on my part, it seems that you're off the hook anyway :) Doug