[boost] Re: Boost license

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-31 15:06:03

Momchil Velikov wrote:
[...]
>   Ok, let it be making copies. So I walk into a store, buy I book and
> I'm entitled to making copies and derived works and distribute them?

No.

> In the same way, I'm entitled to do the same with the Boost libraries?

You're entitled (see the license).

> In the same way, I'm entitled to do the same with the software at
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org? 

You're entitled (see the license).
 
>                    In the same way, I'm entitled to do the same with
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/1/e/81ed90eb-dd87-4a23-aedc-298a9603b4e4/directx_9c_redist.exe ?

Ask Microsoft.

> 
> (For the record, I just downloaded the three things without accepting
> any license or agreeing to a contract or whatever).

You've transmitted "the three things" to your computer without accepting 
any license or agreeing to a contract or whatever. Right.

[...]
>     Alexander> (2) abrogate or restrict the limitations on exclusive rights
>     Alexander> specified in sections 107 through 114 and sections 117, 118
>     Alexander> and 121 of this title.”
> 
> Not sure what do you mean by this ?

It means the end of non-negotiable share-alike lisenses (contracts). 

Welcome to the BSD (or BSL) only world. ;-)

[...]
> Is this merely a ``display'' of the software
> http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/boost/boost_1_31_0.tar.bz2 ?

AFAIK, no.

> 
> Is this merely a ``display'' of the software
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/gcc-3.4.1/gcc-3.4.1.tar.bz2 ?

AFAIK, no.

> 
> What should one do, if he wants more than the fair use rights ? (I 
> presume fair use does not allow manufacturing a thousand CDs with
> Boost, putting them in a pretty box with an EULA printed on the side)

You'll need a grant of rights (implied stuff like the patent grants 
in the boost case is just fine for you as a licensee).

regards,
alexander.