[boost] Re: Boost License changes

From: Juergen Hunold (hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-13 12:39:55

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Hi John !

On Friday 13 August 2004 14:07, John Maddock wrote:
> Juergen,
>
> I hope I'm addressing this to the correct person,

Yes.

> As you will know already, in order to simplify Boost licensing, we
> are in the process of moving to a single common license
> (http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt).  The aim of the new license
> is to provide a single wording, that encapsulates the our previous
> license requirements, and which will simplify the evaluation of Boost
> for commercial organisations.

I've seen the various threads about that change.

> So here's the big question: may we have permission to change code
> that has copyright "Institute of Transport, Railway Construction and
> Operation, University of Hanover, Germany" to use the new license? 
> The copyright declaration would obviously remain, it's only the
> license text that would change.

> If "yes", please post a message to the main boost list
> (boost_at_[hidden]) indicating that this is the case.

Yes, you may change all code with the above copyright to use the new 
boost license.

> John Maddock.
> [Boost Moderator]

Yours,

Jürgen

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