Re: [Boost-users] Including boost headers with MPL OSS project?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-29 04:53:36

Moritz Moeller wrote:
> Hey,
>
> we like to use some of the smart pointer stuff in Liquid
> (liquidmaya.sf.net). However, we like to avoid a boost dependency as
> that stuff is just headers.
> We were thus wondering if there were any problems if we included the
> resp. headers with the Liquid source. Liquid is released under the
> MPL. Rather surprisingly, none of us liquid developers has a
> background in law. :> Hence we are unsure if the boost license
> permits distributing the headers. I guess if we added the boost
> license and stated that those headers lived under that license that
> might be ok?
> Or does the license not permit to distribute any part of boost but
> only the whole shebang?

Not only can you do it, but we have a tool called bcp for automatically 
extracting the subset that you need from the boost tree (see 
http://www.boost.org/tools/bcp/bcp.html).

John.