[boost-vcpkg-helpers] Has inconsistent copyright info

[horenmar]

The boost-vcpkg-helpers license declaration is inconsistent. The portfile downloads BSL copyright notice but the vcpkg.json declares MIT license.

Proposed solution
Make them consistent. I don't know which license is correct though.

[Neumann-A]

MIT in the manifest is correct here since the port is just a script port.
It uses the downloaded copyright to install it for all header based libraries without having to rename the file.

[horenmar]

I would expect it to then install MIT copyright file into its own folder then.

[JackBoosY]

The license should be BSL-1.0.

[Neumann-A]

The license should be BSL-1.0.

@JackBoosY: why? This is a script helper port and has nothing to do with boost.... Did you only look at the downloaded license?

[JackBoosY]

The license should be BSL-1.0.

@JackBoosY: why? This is a script helper port and has nothing to do with boost.... Did you only look at the downloaded license?

Reasonable. That's just a helper, the author is us, not boost.

[MonicaLiu0311]

@horenmar
This is a script helper port and has nothing to do with boost, can this issue be closed?

[dg0yt]

IMO the issue shouldn't be closed but resolved as proposed by

• making share/${PORT}/copyright match the ports license, MIT.
• using a different path for the boost copyright template file.

[horenmar]

Yep. The issue afaik still persists, in that there is inconsistent copyright file and spdx expression in the port. I don't care whether the port is also licensed under BSL or the port is changed to download MIT copyright file.

The current state is annoying in that it trips up error checking in our license-notice stitch script, because the detected copyrights are inconsistent.

[LilyWangLL]

I submitted PR #28617 to fix this issue, I copy the MIT license file in vcpkg to [VCPKG_ROOT]/ports/boost-vcpkg-helpers. Also modify the boost-modular-headers.cmake to make other boost ports still use boost licnese.

[horenmar]

Great, thanks.