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

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-27 13:46:10

Gennaro Prota schrieb:
> 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).

Huh, boost is not free software? AFAICT, the license allows all the four 
freedoms. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html for a list of 
those. So why should boost not fall into the category of free software?

Markus