Re: [boost] Licensing Your Library Under the BSL (WAS Re: preview of a template geometry library)

From: Barend Gehrels (barend_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-01 14:02:52

Dean Michael Berris wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2008 2:49 AM, Frank Mori Hess <frank.hess_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>   
>> On Friday 01 February 2008 07:33 am, Barend Gehrels wrote:
>>     
>>> Of course you can download and look at the sourcecode, no problem. It is
>>> stated like this because it is not yet open source, it is not yet
>>> submitted or accepted by boost and at no other open source site.
>>> Therefore I cannot state there that it is open source at this moment.
>>> However, for review purposes it is allowed to look in it.
>>> If this is not sufficient I can change the statement.
>>>       
>> It sounds like you think you need to get the library accepted into boost
>> before you can license it under the BSL.  You don't need permission from
>> anyone but the copyright owner to release your source code under the BSL.
>> The boost license doesn't place any obligations on you to make any special
>> arrangements for distribution of the source code.
> I am not a lawyer, but I don't think your code needs to be accepted
> into Boost to be released under the Boost Software License. I have a
> few libraries already under the BSL but not (yet) in Boost, released
> in the wild.
>
> I also seem to recall that the default license for all 'unlicensed'
> work is "All Rights Reserved."
>
> Again though, IANAL.
>
>   
Let me clear this:

I don't think I must get it accepted before I use BSL.
I don't think that I must use BSL to get it accepted.

I just found the BSL or any open source library too heavy for a preview of a part of a further unpublished library in this stage.
So please preview if you want, it is certainlty allowed to download the code for preview purposes, as is stated.

Barend

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