Licensing issues for boost users
I am trying to understand the boost licensing in terms of users of boost. Is there any where I can find out additional information about this ? For the project I am working on, we will only ever* use* boost, are there an licensing issues/restrictions for *users* of boost ? Am I right is assuming that boost software license only applies to organization that contribute to boost, and not users? i.e I am assuming that users of boost do not need to embed the boost license in our own code that uses the boost libraries ? in essence we are free to license/copyright our own code in any manner, even though it uses boost? Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Avi
AMDG Avi Bahra wrote:
I am trying to understand the boost licensing in terms of users of boost. Is there any where I can find out additional information about this ?
For the project I am working on, we will only ever* use* boost, are there an licensing issues/restrictions for *users* of boost ?
Am I right is assuming that boost software license only applies to organization that contribute to boost, and not users? i.e I am assuming that users of boost do not need to embed the boost license in our own code that uses the boost libraries ? in essence we are free to license/copyright our own code in any manner, even though it uses boost?
Yes. In Christ, Steven Watanabe
I am trying to understand the boost licensing in terms of users of boost. Is there any where I can find out additional information about this ?
For the project I am working on, we will only ever* use* boost, are there an licensing issues/restrictions for *users* of boost ?
Nope.
Am I right is assuming that boost software license only applies to organization that contribute to boost, and not users?
It applies to the Boost *source code* - so as long as you don't change the source (or the copyright licence declarations in the source) - you basically don't have to do anything to comply with the terms.
i.e I am assuming that users of boost do not need to embed the boost license in our own code that uses the boost libraries ?
No.
in essence we are free to license/copyright our own code in any manner, even though it uses boost?
Yep.
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
HTH, but remember IANAL, John.
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Avi Bahra
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John Maddock
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Steven Watanabe