[boost] Re: [LICENSE] Blanket permissions

From: Daniel Frey (d.frey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-04 02:41:23

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 04:02:26 +0100, David Abrahams wrote:

> Three.  I also changed the wording of the grant of permission to be
> slightly less ambiguous and more legally precise (I hope).  In

IANAL and my C++ is better than my english, too :)

> particular, the phrase "The new license is allowed to replace all former
> licenses" sounds like it is granting a permission to the license, rather
> than to a person.  Beman and Daniel, please confirm that this meets with
> your approval:
> 
> -The following people hereby grant permission to apply the Boost
> -Software License, Version 1.0 to all contributions made to the Boost
> -group. The new license is allowed to replace all former licenses.
> +The following people hereby grant permission to replace all existing
> +licenses on their contributions to Boost with the Boost Software
> +License, Version 1.0.

Fine with me. 

Regards, Daniel