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

From: Chris Little (cslittle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-26 13:57:59

on 6/26/03 1:24 PM, Alexander Terekhov at terekhov_at_[hidden] wrote:

> 
> Howard Hinnant wrote:
>> 
>> Since boost is a spring board for standardization of a library, I'm
>> wondering if the boost license requires the copyright notice to follow
>> for other implementations which follow the interface of the boost
>> library, but independently develop the implementation?
>> 
>> In other words, if we standardize a boost library, will the library's
>> copyright notice have to be in all implementations of that std::lib?
> 
> http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise23.html
> http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise27.html
> 
>> Will the copyright need to appear in the standard itself?
> 
> Uhmm, why would you care?

Howard writes the standard library for Metrowerks as well as sitting on the
standards committee so I'm sure he's wondering about what happens in the
future.

Chris