Re: [boost] Re: Draft of new Boost Software License

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-08 13:55:02

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Glen Knowles wrote:
> [...]
>> The Common Public License already has a section in the wiki and fails
>> the boost requirements as shown.
>>
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Boost_License/Common_Public_License
>
> Yeah. That "review process" was really entertaining. Thanks for the
> reminder. "Must be simple to read and understand" is rather
> subjective,
> don't you think? As for "Must not require that the source code be
> available for execution or other binary uses of the library"... well,
> what's the problem? www.boost.org was pretty stable, thus far.

The answers to questions 12 and 18 from

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-cplfaq.html

seem problematic.