Jeff Garland wrote:

I found a few moments to work on cleaning up licensing issues and decided to go make sure all the date_time xml docs have licensing info. The problem is, how should the copyright be added to all the files? I hunted around in other libraries using boostbook and it looks like they all lack copyright and license info in all but the top level xml file. I notice that in the library main file we correctly notice the following construct in the inspection:

<libraryinfo> <author> <firstname>Jeff</firstname> <surname>Garland</surname> </author>

<copyright> <year>2001</year> <year>2002</year> <year>2003</year> <year>2004</year> <holder>CrystalClear Software, Inc</holder> </copyright>

<legalnotice> <para>Subject to the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file <filename>LICENSE_1_0.txt</filename> or copy at <ulink

url="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</ulink>)</para> </legalnotice>

<librarypurpose>A set of facilities to ease programming with dates and times. </librarypurpose> <librarycategory name="category:misc"/> </libraryinfo>

This is so that the legal notice can be rendered in the introduction page of the library documentation.

So it seems one option would be to change the boostbook schema and allow copyright and legal notice elements in each file. The other possibility would be to add this as a comment:

<!-- Copyright (c) 2000-2004 CrystalClear Software, Inc. Subject to the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE-1.0 or http://www.boost.org/LICENSE-1.0) -->

Thoughts on how best to approach this?

I think the best approach would be in a comment, since adding copyright markup to each file would require adding code in the XSLT files to prevent it from being rendered. Regards, Reece _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger