"John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> writes:
This is a reminder to urge Boost developers to add their names to http://www.boost.org/more/blanket-permission.txt if applicable. In fact, I would also like to see a list of authors who explicitly don't want their libraries be subject to the new Boost license.
If anybody wants me to do a license conversion for them, I'd be more than happy to. Just contact me, let me know what library you want converted, and I will send you back the patches.
As long as some of the wide-spread libraries (MPL, smart_ptr, etc.) keep their old license, libraries that depend on these are effectively still limited.
I think we're going to have to be more pro-active about this or it'll never get done. It would help if someone would go through the common code in the boost/detail directory and ask the authors for permission to change their licenses, after that we can hit on individual libraries.
It's a good idea.
FWIW, we're going to have problems doing that for the threads
"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message news:u4qqwo1dn.fsf@boost-consulting.com... library if
nobody can find Bill Kempf.
I was going to mention this, too. FWIW, I'm still trying (to contact him, that is). Also FWIW, I just added my name to the list. Mike