On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 20:16:14 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2014-01-09 19:39, Sean Kelly wrote:
I do think we may need to stick with manually written headers
though, as much for copyright reasons as anything.
Why not an automatic solution? Why would the copyright matter
if it's manually or automatically translated?
Because of this clause from the Boost license page:
"The conceptual interface to a library isn't covered. The
particular representation expressed in the header is covered, as
is the documentation, examples, test programs, and all the other
material that goes with the library. A different implementation
is free to use the same logical interface, however. Interface
issues have been fought out in court several times; ask a lawyer
for details."
I suspect that an automatic translation might be subject to the
"representation" issue, while a manual rewrite should not.
