[boost] Re: License updates for 1.30.2

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-16 16:40:21

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 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.

If we're going to include a URL we had *really* better have a stable
license, no?

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Dave Abrahams
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