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

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-26 14:19:49

On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 01:24  PM, Alexander Terekhov 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?

My job is to implement the std::lib for Metrowerks.  Why would I /not/ 
care?

-Howard