[boost] Re: About the new License

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-03 05:03:34

New license sucks. Pathetic example of NIH syndrome.

Jaap Suter wrote:
[...]
> the implementation. For example, anybody implementing the scoped_ptr
> interface will pretty much end up with code the same as in the Boost
> library, perhaps minus the portability workarounds. What does this mean for
> the copyright of the original Boost scoped_ptr, especially considering that
> anybody implementing its own scoped_ptr will probably have heard of Boost
> and possibly even have looked at it.

http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise27.html
http://www.pbwt.com/Attorney/files/ravicher_1.pdf

regards,
alexander.

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