Re: [boost] Referencing Boost.Iostreams in the documentation of a non-boost library

Subject: Re: [boost] Referencing Boost.Iostreams in the documentation of a non-boost library
From: Daniel Pfeifer (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-23 07:56:30

2013/9/21 Gene Panov <gene.panov_at_[hidden]>:
> Boost Experts,
>
> I am a fan of Boost.Iostreams and I am referencing them several times in
> the documentation of a little library that I wrote and posted on Google
> Code under "New BSD license" (https://code.google.com/p/async-ostream/).
>
> Do I need to provide a full URL or copyright information or anything else
> to make such reference to Boost.Iostreams legally sound? Or shall I just
> switch to use Boost Software License instead to keep it simple?

You can use any license you want (including proprietary): the boost
software license is not viral.
Even if it were, I doubt that mentioning Boost.IOStreams in your
documentation makes your software a derivative work.