At 05:58 PM 6/27/2003, David Abrahams wrote: >Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Now you might ask, "what about the interface, doesn't the copyright >> cover that too?" The answer is "no", as has been fought out in court >> several times. Ask a lawyer for details, but interfaces themselves >> aren't covered by copyright. The docs are covered, the header is >> covered, the implementation, test cases, etc, are all covered, but not >> the conceptual interface. > >We ought to put this in the license FAQ.
Done.
Once we think the license background page is pretty stable, perhaps the lawyers can take a quick look at it to make sure we haven't said anything totally wrong.
(Dave is the Boost point person in dealing with the lawyers; he deserves a lot of credit for persevering in getting busy people to focus on Boost, and getting them to understand the Boost culture.)
--Beman
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