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 15:25:21

Folks,

The license notes are adapted and the library is there again, using BSL. 
Thanks for all your hints.
The URL stays: http://geometrylibrary.geodan.nl/geometry.html

Regards, Barend

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> Barend Gehrels wrote:
>   
>> Dean Michael Berris wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>>         
>>>>> 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 I just found the BSL or any open source library too heavy for a preview of a part of a further unpublished library in this stage.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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>
>   

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