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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-27 13:29:07

At 09:33 PM 6/26/2003, Fernando Cacciola wrote:

 >Motivated by A. Terekhov concerns, I think the license should, if at all
 >possible, expressely PROHIBIT anyone, including the copyright holder,
 >from patenting the covered Software and any implied intellectual
 >production.

That's an interesting issue. I've added it to the list. (Rather than 
peppering the legal folks with issues one-by-one, I'll build up a list for 
a few more days and then send it to them all at once.)

 >BTW, make sure to express our gratitude to those lawers for their time 
and
 >great work!!

Will do.

Thanks,

--Beman