[boost] Re: Draft of new Boost Software License

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-08 12:48:05

David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> Alexander Terekhov <terekhov_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> > P.S. CPL == *WIN*-*WIN*
> 
> These legal issues are sufficiently confusing to overwhelm the brains
> of most of us regular Boost people. 

Uhmm. Your previous posting was not bad at all. ;-)
 
>                                     Unless you are prepared to depart
> from your usual "hint-dropping" style and explain why you think CPL is
> better than what we're considering, I think it's probably going to
> remain... wherever it is that droppings end up.

Sorry, I really can't explain it better than

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-cplfaq.html

regards,
alexander.

P.S. http://ntxshape.sourceforge.net/opensource.html

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Common Public License

There is one other license that we might have considered: the Common 
Public License, used for some projects on IBM's developerWorks site. 
It looks much like the IBM Public License, except that it is not 
"hard-coded" for IBM, and is is intended for general use. These 
licenses, both published by IBM, seem to strike a balance similar 
to that of the Mozilla Public License, but are easier for a human 
(as opposed to a lawyer) to read. 

However, the Common Public License bears a version number of 0.5. 
It is not a widely used license, perhaps because its version number 
implies instability. As a result it is not as well known as the 
licenses mentioned above, and has not entered into the open source 
vernacular. So, although it looks promising, this license does not 
have the same communication / project marketing value as the better 
known, more widely used licenses. 

IBM needs to release a 1.0 version of this license, and do a better 
job of marketing this license to developers, so that the license 
itself can help market IBM developerWorks' open source projects. 
Until they do those things, I doubt this license will get very much 
mindshare outside of IBM's developerWorks. 

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