Re: guidelines for using boost code

[Jonathan Wakely <cow at compsoc dot man dot ac dot uk>]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:37:25AM -0600, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

> 
> > Yes, that's much clearer about where the code is from ... thanks for
> > that.  My only concern is whether it should be boost_shared_ptr.h rather
> > than boost_memory.h, but that's not very important.
> 
> How about boost_smart_pointers.h? (Since there's weak_ptr too.)

That might imply we also have boost::scoped_ptr, boost::scoped_array etc.

weak_ptr is useless in isolation, it is only useful in partnership with
shared_ptr, but I'm not worried either way.

> > I assume no-one's contacted the original authors?  I'll send them a
> > mail, explaining what the FSF's decisions was and under what terms we're
> > using the code (and that we don't need to ask them for assignments)
> 
> Not for this code. I talked to Jeremy.

Cool, I'll let them know then.

thanks,

jon

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