Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:
Walter Landry wrote: [...]
I just realized that the Graph library is licensed under GPL-incompatible terms
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The GPL has very clear terms for how I can make copies of derived works. One of those terms is that the complete derived work doesn't have any additional restrictions above what the GPL has. Other licenses may not care about derived works, but the GPL does. This is particularly true for the graph library, since the binary will contain large chunks of it.
(it has a choice of law provision, among other things). In fact, it is basically a copyleft, so I'm surprised it got into boost.
I for one see nothing troubling with it. But the CPL is much better, of course.
I didn't say that I had a problem with it's freeness. Rather it is incompatible with the GPL. This is the same kind of clause as caused problems with Python. Regards, Walter Landry wlandry@ucsd.edu