"Stefan Seefeld" <seefeld@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:40BEA50C.1050003@sympatico.ca...
[...] They certainly allow proprietary software to use GSL. What they don't want is people extending their work (and that's how they would look at a boost wrapper) be able to distribute that work under less free terms than what GPL provides (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html).
Note that the operative term here is 'distribute', not 'use'. If you don't distribute you don't need to look into license issues. [...]
So are you saying that Boost could produce a GSL wrapper, distribute it independently, and ask users to obtain GSL themselves? Dave --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.691 / Virus Database: 452 - Release Date: 5/26/2004