Re: [Boost-users] Ownership of Boost IP?

From: james.jones_at_[hidden]
Date: 2006-08-04 11:37:51

From: "Nat Goodspeed" <ngoodspeed_at_[hidden]>
> As the lawyers' position is "Don't use
> Boost," I can't see them making that effort, so it would be up to me (or
> other interested developers) to pursue it. Which leaves me/us vulnerable
> to charges of "wasting time" that could "better" be spent reinventing
> Boost technologies.

How about mentioning that a bunch of Boost stuff (ideas, at least) is intended for use in TR1 and, AFAIK, TR2 and TRn. And that surely standard libraries wouldn't be subject to these IP concerns? (Of course, they might reply: "Fine, once it gets into standard libraries you can use it." Which means you're waiting years.)

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