RE: [Boost-users] Re: about license

From: Darryl Green (Darryl.Green_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-24 21:41:53

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Abrahams [mailto:dave_at_[hidden]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:43 AM
> 
> "Darryl Green" <Darryl.Green_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> > I'm happy to provide a patch once I'm reasonably sure I 
> understand the
> > license. I'm assuming an email discussion will be more 
> productive than
> > patches in the meantime. I have one more question that I 
> have a proposed
> > FAQ answer for, but my "answer" is based purely on what I think it
> > should be, not an understanding of the law.

I've been trying to educate myself about the law in this area,
with some help from Alexander Terekhov. I'm not at all convinced
now that there is any derivative work produced by the compilation
step, however this seems to make no difference to the result.
It seems the compiled code is a translation of both works,
agregated (a compilation) in some way then. I think whoever
produces the compilation can license it however they like,
subject to permission being granted by the authors of the
original works to include their work in the compilation.
I don't know if this is sufficiently clearly allowed by
the wording of the boost license, though I think "use"
must surely allow this for software source libs as there
is no other way to "use" them.

So the final answer is the same - but some of the questions
and answers in between may be wrong.

Have you received any feedback from lawyers about this?

Regards
Darryl Green.

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