Re: [boost] Re: Moving to the Boost Software License

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-21 08:27:36

On Jul 21, 2004, at 12:06 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:

> Doug Gregor wrote:
>
>> We know we'd like to move over to the Boost Software License (BSL), 
>> but doing so is a bit of a pain. I've just updated John Maddock's bcp 
>> tool to add three new things to the HTML report it generates:
>
> So, ah, why not update the tool that was designed for the purpose of 
> doing the license (and other) checks: tools/inspect ??

Both tools were meant to do license checks (and at some point we'd love 
to unify them). bcp knows about all of the licenses used in Boost, and 
collects the names of authors when it parses the license, so it needed 
only minor tweaks to create the extra output we need to determine what 
it will take to get a library moved over to the BSL. The inspect tool 
only does the equivalent of "grep boost.*software.*license", so it 
wasn't such a good fit without lots of effort.

        Doug