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

Gennaro Prota schrieb:

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:43:36 -0700 (PDT), Cromwell Enage wrote:

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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