Re: [boost] implicit_cast inventor

[Beman Dawes]

At 11:26 AM 11/30/2002, David Abrahams wrote:
>"Peter Dimov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Google tells me that I was wrong, and the "correct" implementation was
>> originally suggested by C. Green in
>>
>> http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg00886.php
>
>Hmm. Can anyone track him down to get permission to use it? I don't
>recall seeing his name in any recent postings.

Mmmm... While I think it is great if you discuss it with him or her, and I've sent you the email address privately, I also think that simply crediting him or her is enough.

Should we be worrying about a code snippet posted on a public mailing list like Boost's, particularly one so short and with no indication of any wish to consider it anything other than a typical throw-away posting?

I'm all for bending over backwards to protect Booster's intellectual property rights, but I having a lot of trouble applying IP concepts to such a posting. Am I off-base here?

--Beman


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