On 20/02/2018 10:41, Dominique CHABAUD via Boost wrote:
I first submitted the case to the Boost Steering Committee... and I was suggested to submit it to this list...
Yeah the procedure is fairly undocumented. First you approach boost-steering, they usually tell you to go to boost-dev, after some discussion you then have the option to mail boost-steering with the key phrase "I formally request that the Boost Steering Committee consider the following problem: <insert explanation here>". That turns it into a formal request, something they must action upon. Normal email without that key phrase causes no effect on boost-steering.
I am not a Boost contributor but I agree with those who proposed to rewrite these dozen line of code, that will close the discussions...
No copyright applies to those lines, as I've repeated an awful lot of times now. There is nothing to infringe. Rewriting them would detract from the codebase and reduce the study worth of Boost code. So I refuse to do it as to do so is pandering to superstition and ignorance when we should be taking a firm line on this instead, one based on evidence, rationality, common sense and making the best code one can make instead of brushing problems under the carpet, box ticking and refusing to cite, acknowledge nor attribute originators of ideas and inspirations behind great code. As is probably clear by now, I find that whole mentality of hiding your sources disgusting. Though, please do not take this as criticism of you Dominique. I am very grateful to you for raising, and pursuing this issue as it is one too often deliberately ignored lest what vipers may be found under the carpet, and then people would actually have to deal with this issue instead of pretending it doesn't exist. If someone else wants this topic to go away, they can submit a PR. Boost is open source. Be aware there is more than one use of stackoverflow snippets in Boost. If you PR to deal with one, best do them all, as you've just set a precedent. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/