Re: [Boost-users] [license] Why is the Boost license not an official Open Source license?

From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro_prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-27 06:58:48

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:43:36 -0700 (PDT), Cromwell Enage
<sponage_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>IIRC a submittal was sent a while back (maybe almost a
>year ago).  No word on whether the submittal even got
>to its destination.  However, the Free Software
>Foundation does list the BSL as a GPL-compatible
>license.  (See
><http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html>.)

Which doesn't mean much, to be honest. I'd like to state clearly that
boost is *not* free software, just open source (modulo opensource.org
confirming that).

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