Re: [boost] boost license compatibility

From: jsiek_at_[hidden]
Date: 2000-05-07 19:28:07

Ok, so the idea here is to prevent someone from taking a boost
library, making all kinds of bad modifications, and then
redistributing it and claiming that it is an "official boost library".
In practice I'm not sure how big a deal this really is, but having
this kind of clause in the GGCL license would make my advisor feel
better :)

This kind of clause doesn't prevent modification or redistribution, it
just restricts what you call the thing that gets redistributed.

Beman Dawes writes:
 > 
 > >4. May contain restrictions about what is considered the
 > >  "Standard Version" of the library. The version available
 > >  at the boost cite would be the "Standard Version".
 > >  (similar to clauses in the artistic license)
 > 
 > 
 > I'm not sure I understand this one.  I tried the Perl version of the
 > artistic license, failed to parse it after two reading and gave up.
 > Could you explain in a bit more detail?  Sorry I'm so dense.
 > 
 > Thanks for following up on this.
 >