----- Original Message ----- From: "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 4:22 AM Subject: [boost] Re: Re: google going open source
"Martin Wille" <mw8329@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:423A9629.4050800@yahoo.com.au... | Thorsten Ottosen wrote: | > "Bronek Kozicki" <brok@rubikon.pl> wrote in message | > news:4239ED44.5090508@rubikon.pl... | > | under BSD 2.0 license | > | http://code.google.com/ | > | | > | > Hm...would anyone volenteer to boostify | > https://sourceforge.net/projects/goog-perftools/, | | Can't be done, due to the license.
Well, what a great gift to the open source community then !
-Thorsten
The BSD license is as flexible as the Boost license. It is also more widely used, understood and recognized than the Boost license. Come to think of it I think Boost should switch to the BSD license, or at least but accepting of code released under the Boost license. The excellent STLSoft libraries by Matthew Wilson ( http://www.stlsoft.org ) are BSD licensed. I am not a legal expert, but I see no reason one can not add a Boost license to code already licensed under the BSD version 2.0. It just makes for a screenful of disclaimers for every header. -Christopher Diggins