Re: [boost] Re: [LICENSE] Blanket permissions

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-06 14:58:33

At 10:02 PM 12/3/2003, David Abrahams wrote:

 >> It has two names now:-)
 >>
 >
 >Three.  I also changed the wording of the grant of permission to be
 >slightly less ambiguous and more legally precise (I hope).  In
 >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.
 >
 >+David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
 > Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
 > Daniel Frey (d.frey -at- gmx.de, daniel.frey -at- aixigo.de)

Fine with me.

--Beman