Re: [Boost-Users] Permission to use?

From: Noel Yap (yap_noel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-06 11:20:48

--- Douglas Gregor <gregod_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Every Boost library has its own license agreement
> for users. However, minimum 
> requirements for that license agreement are
> specified at 
> http://www.boost.org/more/lib_guide.htm#License,
> which specifies in part that 
> each library's license agreement (with the user) 
> 
> "Must grant permission to copy, use and modify the
> software for any use 
> (commercial and non-commercial) for no fee. "
> 
> So every Boost library grants permission _to the
> user_ to copy, use, and 
> modify the software for any use for free. Libraries
> with more restrictive 
> open-source licenses (e.g., the GNU Public License),
> are _not_ eligible for 
> inclusion in Boost because they do not meet the
> Boost license requirements 
> (one of which is "Must not require that the source
> code be available for 
> execution or other binary uses of the library").
> 
> So in your example, using the Boost libraries does
> _not_ require you to 
> open-source your application or library, because no
> Boost library is allowed 
> to require that.

Thanks so much for the clarification.

Noel

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