Re: [license] Boost license question

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-01-23 19:19:22

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 1:13 PM Edward Diener via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> If some compiler vendor takes a version of Boost and makes changes to
> that version of Boost to suit the particular compiler, while
> distributing that version with full source code as an optional part of
> some release of that compiler, does this mean that the code is now
> proprietary for that compiler vendor ? Or does the code still remain
> open source so that a programmer can use the changes made to update his
> own version of a Boost release or provide PRs to some later release of
> Boost based on the code in the compiler vendor's release ?
>

Depends entirely on what license they made the changes available as.

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