My company's lawyer did go through every file, and I had meant to bring
From: "Jeff Faust"
issue up sooner. Boost should be something that I, as a developer for a company, can recognize as something useful and should be able to incorporate it without too much hindrance. In truth, it was quite difficult and took a long time. The only difficulty was the license. Some blanket license, as a text file with the release, would aid greatly in convincing lawyer-types that it's safe to use.
From: Elliot Murphy [mailto:elliot.murphy@veritas.com] That would be helpful. Some of my colleagues have had terribly frustrating experiences trying to get our lawyers to approve the use of various boost libraries. The lawyers don't seem to like the idea of going into every source file to read a license agreement.
IANAL, but it seems to me that a blanket license in a text file would have no legal value if the actual source files say something different; therefore, it is the lawyers' job to go into every source file anyway, to be on the safe side (applies to any library, not just Boost.) I think.