[boost] Licensing question

From: Tarjei Knapstad (tarjeik_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-09 10:55:10

Hi.

I'm writing this on behalf of the ACCU (Association of C and C++ Users)
mentored developer project for "Modern C++ design".

We're currently in the process of setting up a project at SourceForge to
serve as a repository for extensions and examples to be used with the
Loki library (http://sourceforge.net/projects/loki-lib) developed by
Andrei Alexandrescu as a complement to his book "Modern C++ Design".

The project is part of our ongoing (closed to ACCU members) 'mentored
developer project', which is aimed at teaching ourselves the
Alexandrescus book and the Loki library. Worthy extensions and examples
form this project will be incorporated into the Loki library at a later
point.

As I understand, the Loki library may be incorporated into Boost
somewhere down the road, and we need to avoid any possible licensing
trouble to make that possible.

Currently we've had a look at the MIT license, which seems to satisfy
your licensing requirements, but I would like to make sure that we don't
have potential conflicts. The MIT license looks like this:

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Copyright (c) 2002 Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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In particular I'm a bit uncertain if this license satisfies your
requirement:

"Must not require that the license appear with executables or other
binary uses of the library."

If not, are there any of the OSI approved licenses
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/) that do satisfy the Boost
requirements?

If not, we'd be forced to submit a home-brew license to the people over
at SourceForge, which may extend the time it would take to get our
project approved.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
-- 
Tarjei Knapstad