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

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-17 16:43:16

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> 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.

Ah, no... There are plenty of "free software" available without it being 
open-source. Say, like Sun Java was for a long time.

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