Re: [boost] Microsoft vs The Boost License

Subject: Re: [boost] Microsoft vs The Boost License
From: Phil Bouchard (philippeb8_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-08-05 16:30:01

On 08/05/2017 12:11 PM, Phil Bouchard via Boost wrote:
> On 08/05/2017 11:53 AM, Jens Weller via Boost wrote:
>>
>> You should have some more evidence, that there is a relation between 
>> Herbs gcpp, and your root_ptr.
>>
>> Btw. Herb presented this last year in his CppCon keynote:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfmTagWcqoE
>>
>> So thats why its fairly well known in the community.
> 
> Well we can look at the logs of block_ptr / root_ptr which date back to 
> February 2016 on Github and Mr. Sutter's first commit ironically was 
> done later in September of the same year.

The evidence in this case is probabilistic because what are the chances 
we come up both at the same time the exact same idea after 60 years of 
research on the subject?

Regards,
-Phil