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

From: Jonathan Turkanis (turkanis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-01 14:21:32

Barend Gehrels wrote:
> 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.

> I just found the BSL or any open source library too heavy for a preview of a part of a further unpublished library in this stage.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.
>

I was not following the template geometry thread, so please forgive me 
if I'm missing the point ...

It seems to me that you will get a much closer inspection of your work 
if you are willing to open-source it now; it takes a lot of effort to 
review a submission to boost (or a submission preview), and personally I 
would not want to spend the energy if I thought the author was 
considering keeping the code proprietary.

> Barend

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