David Abrahams wrote:
It seems to me that we can't ask our volunteer lawyers to draw up a list of answers to all the possible licensing questions along these lines, nor can we reasonably make them available as an on-demand resource for answering boost users' legal questions. No, but I think that the interaction between the LGPL or GPL and the Boost License is probably going to be a very frequently encountered scenario. Basically, what it boils down to is: what is the compatibility between LGPL or GPL, and the Boost license?
Can we draw up a list of the most common free-software licenses, say the top three, and ask the volunteer lawyers to determine whether Boost is compatible with each of the three? I don't mean to determine the various combinations and permutations, e.g. Boost and GPL and Mozilla Artistic, but the simple ones: Boost and "x", Boost and "y", etc. Until and unless such a comparison is done, though, I would echo your advice about seeking a competent legal opinion. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)