Re: [Boost-users] License Issue with boost_intrusive

From: Zach Laine (whatwasthataddress_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-08-22 21:16:10

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 3:18 PM Rene Rivera via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:37 PM Michael Caisse via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > Copying to dev ML.
> >
> > On 8/22/19 12:05, Gerald Wiltse via Boost-users wrote:
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/boostorg/intrusive/blob/develop/include/boost/intrusive/detail/math.hpp#L156-L158
> >
> > > Original sources:
> > >
> >
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11376288/fast-computing-of-log2-for-64-bit-integers
> >
> >
>
> The original source of that one is <
> http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#IntegerLogLookup>.
> Which is stated as "Individually, the code snippets here are in the public
> domain (unless otherwise noted) ". I'm surprised the lawyers in this case
> did not track that down.
>

Public domain does not exist in some jurisdictions, so it cannot be used in
place of a license.

Zach