Re: [boost] boost.m4 or how to use Boost with the GNU Autotools

From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-17 16:15:06

Dean Michael Berris wrote:

> Will you consider the Boost Software License a Free license? Or would
> the Boost Software License (http://boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) be an
> Open Source License and not a Free License?

While the definitions of free software and open-source software are 
different,
- An open-source software license is a free software license (the other 
way around isn't necessarily true)
- There doesn't exist at the moment in the world a single license that 
is a free software one and not an open-source one.