Re: [boost] License updates for 1.30.2

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-16 07:27:08

Beman Dawes wrote:
> At 09:30 AM 9/15/2003, Peter Dimov wrote:
>
>  >  Shouldn't this be:
>  >
>  >  // See Boost Software License Version 1.0 for terms and conditions of
use.
>
> That question came in discussions with the lawyers. The short answer
> was "no".
>
> I'm having trouble remember the full rationale, but gist of it was
> that there isn't a need to identify the version, since the license is
> included in the distribution.

OK, but if you are looking at the source file in isolation, how do you know
which distribution it came from?