Re: [boost] [review] Multiprecision review (June 8th - 17th, 2012)

Subject: Re: [boost] [review] Multiprecision review (June 8th - 17th, 2012)
From: Marc Glisse (marc.glisse_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-09 08:37:12

On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Paul A. Bristow wrote:

> License and backend
> =================
> Allowing a choice of backend has crucial license advantages, allowing 
> the 'gold standard' optimised GMP, but also allowing the Boost licensed 
> version with remarkably little loss of speed.  (I note the price we are 
> paying for the commercial greed and patent abuse that has made 
> maintaining the GPL license status of GMP such a quasi-religious issue).

Let us try to be factual in a section called "License": the license of GMP 
is *L*GPL. I know everything GNU is anathema in BSD-land, but it does make 
a difference.
(end of digression, please no license flame war)

-- 
Marc Glisse