Re: [boost] Boost licensing information

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost licensing information
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-04-13 11:10:58

On 04/13/17 13:40, Josh Juran via Boost wrote:
>
> Authors who license their own code under the
> GPL are not bound by the GPL with respect to that code.  An author is
> allowed to offer anything under the terms of the GPL, including a
> program that links to a binary-only library...

That's not my reading of the GPL. According to Section 6 [1], everyone, 
including the author, must provide source code of the (derived) work as 
part of distribution, which is not possible if the work contains a 
binary-only component.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html