Re: [Boost-users] Integral type with no upper limit?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Integral type with no upper limit?
From: Michiel Helvensteijn (m.helvensteijn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-27 05:13:55

Marshall Clow wrote:

>>Perhaps Boost shouldn't reinvent the wheel? There's already an open-source
>>arbitrary precision arithmetic library: http://gmplib.org/
> 
> Which says:
> GMP is distributed under the GNU LGPL. This license makes the
> library free to use, share, and improve, and allows you to pass on
> the result. The license gives freedoms, but also sets firm
> restrictions on the use with non-free programs.
> 
> There are people using Boost for both free and non-free programs.
> It's my understanding that we (Boost) want to continue to support all of
> them.

It was my understanding that the difference between the GPL and the LGPL was
that libraries under the LGPL may be used in non-free programs.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

That article is written from the free software movement point of view, but
the first paragraph does make as much clear.

Whether it's actually 'compatible' with the boost license, I have no idea.

-- 
Michiel Helvensteijn