[boost] Re: License Revision

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-22 07:23:46

Guillaume Melquiond <gmelquio_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Philippe A. Bouchard wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>         Maybe the license would be clearer this way:
>>
>>
>> Copyright (c) 2003, Boost Library.
>>
>> All rights reserved.
>>
>> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
>> modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
>> met:
>>
>> (1) Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>> (2) Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
>> documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>
> I don't know if it's clearer, but it's obviously different. The cvs
> version says: "[...] unless such copies or derivative works are solely in
> the form of machine-executable object code generated by a source language
> processor."

And a lot of effort was expended under the supervision of IP lawyers
to make sure it said what we meant it to.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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