[boost] Re: Boost Mathematicians

From: David B. Held (dheld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-02 23:42:24

"Stefan Seefeld" <seefeld_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:40BEA50C.1050003_at_sympatico.ca...
> [...]
> They certainly allow proprietary software to use GSL. What they
> don't want is people extending their work (and that's how they
> would look at a boost wrapper) be able to distribute that work
> under less free terms than what GPL provides
> (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html).
>
> Note that the operative term here is 'distribute', not 'use'.
> If you don't distribute you don't need to look into license issues.
> [...]

So are you saying that Boost could produce a GSL wrapper,
distribute it independently, and ask users to obtain GSL
themselves?

Dave

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