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the book, etc.) are being reserved in the publisher or author. I think it
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shouldn't be in the BSD license."</p>
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+<p><b>Do I have to copyright/license trivial files?</b>
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+<p>Even a test file that just contains an empty <code>main()</code>
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+should have a copyright. Files without copyrights make corporate
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+lawyers nervous, and that's a barrier to adoption. The more of Boost
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+is uniformly copyrighted and licensed, the less problem people will
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+have with mounting a Boost release CD on a corporate server.
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<h2><a name="Transition">Transition</a></h2>
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<p>To ease the transition of the code base towards the new common
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Boost members reviewed drafts of the license. Beman Dawes wrote this web page.</p>
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<p>Revised
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<p> © Copyright 2003-2004 Beman Dawes, Daniel Frey, David Abrahams.</p>
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<p> Use, modification, and distribution are subject to the Boost Software
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