Re: [boost] License updates for 1.30.2

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-16 08:59:48

At 08:27 AM 9/16/2003, Peter Dimov wrote:
 >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?

You would have to look at CVS or past releases. Part of the rationale for 
also including a URL in an additional comment is to allow that. That's more 
than many open source and commercial projects do - for example, the Python 
folks don't even put copyrights in their source files.

--Beman