[boost] Re: Boost license

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-30 15:47:03

Momchil Velikov wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Terekhov <terekhov_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>     Alexander> You can violate the distribution right only with
>     Alexander> illegal/unlawful/pirated copies
> 
>   But the only way to obtain a legal copy is to accept the license:
> 
>   "5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
> signed it.  However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
> distribute the Program or its derivative works.  These actions are
> prohibited by law if you do not accept this License"
> 
>  Is it possible to accept it and not be bound by its terms ?

You don't "accept" anything when you buy a book. Stallman wrote the 
GPL long before Softman vs Adobe... if you want reciprocal share-
alike "license" that works, use the CPL, the OSL, and other solid 
contractual stuff like that. Well, read also this:

http://tinyurl.com/6zfbu
(The Role of Intellectual Property in Open Source Software)

My humbly "A+B" can be found here:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=410842A8.5D889B13%40web.de

Uhmm, here's "C" (WRT nonliteral copying):

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=40FEBA51.102A9589%40web.de
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=40DFD973.890F4CE7%40web.de

Both

  Christian Nadan, A Proposal to Recognize Component Works:  
  How a Teddy Bears on the Competing Ends of Copyright Law

and

  Christopher Heer, The Case against Copyright Protection of 
  Non-literal Elements of Computer Software

are MUST READ.

regards,
alexander.