On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:04 PM, John Maddock <boost.regex@virgin.net> wrote:
Has this really been broken for 12 years?
Originally this code (and Boost in general) was not under the BSL, in fact most of it was under an SGI-like license. Unfortunately there were a few corner cases we couldn't easily get rid of.
In the case of limits.hpp I'm almost completely sure we can just remove it, I don't think that any system that relied on it could cope with modern Boost anyway.
endian.hpp is much harder, Beman what did you borrow from SGI for this one?
I wasn't involved in the original creation of either limits.hpp or endian.hpp. I'll leave limits.hpp to you, but for endian.hpp I think Boost.Endian should provide that functionality in a Boost license only header. The boost-root/boost/detail/endian.hpp header can be change to forward to the Boost.Endian header, for compatibility, and the SGI copyright can then be eliminated. I'll add that to the do-list. --Beman