Re: [boost] Library suggestion - audio IO

Subject: Re: [boost] Library suggestion - audio IO
From: Christian Holmquist (c.holmquist_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-16 16:48:14

On 16 June 2011 15:05, Philip Bennefall <philip_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> They do in terms of functionality, but the license for PortAudio for
> example, is BSD style and is rather unsuitable for my application. I am
> writing middleware, and using BSD or LGPL code would mean that my end users
> would have to include a lot of license text in their distributions just
> because my middleware uses certain components. The Boost license does not
> require this. There are plenty of other implementations of many things found
> in Boost (graph algorithms, string processing, regular expressions,
> date/time etc etc), but the Boost versions are still very much called for.
>
>
>From portAudio: "In terms of legal compatibility, the PortAudio licence is
now a plain MIT licence"
Adding a copyright notice seems a cheap price compared to re-inventing a
beast of this kind.

- Christian