[boost] Proposed change to license references

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-18 15:22:12

Given recent advice from Diane Cabell, director of Harvard's Berkman
Center for Internet and Society, I propose we change the way that
boost source files refer to the bost license 

from:

  //  Use, modification, and distribution is subject to the Boost Software 
  //  License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy 
  //  at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)                             

to:

  // Distributed under the Boost
  // Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file
  // LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

The earlier license reference, by referring explicitly to "use,
modification, and distribution", legally excludes important issues
like "display", which are covered by the license itself and are
intended to apply to source files.

I'm posting this now to give people a chance to come up with any other
issues -- **with the license reference comment**, not the license
itself -- that may need to be addressed before we make a change.  If
there are no new issues within a week or so, we'll make it official.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com