At 05:38 PM 12/13/2004, Beman Dawes wrote:
At 04:29 PM 12/13/2004, Jeff Garland wrote:
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:09:21 -0500, Beman Dawes wrote
Problem I see is that IBM wants a $3000 license fee to use this. I thought >things that went into the standard had to be available on an 'any-use' >license >like boost -- or are they planning on changing the license if this is >accepted?
I don't know but can find out. Do you have a reference that discusses the license?
If you follow the links on the IBM website to the download page you will see a license link which then asks for a $3000 payment :-( It's a sure way
to
discourage adoption to only the most highly motivated.
OK, I see it and have queried the committee to see whether the fee applies just to the IBM implementation, or would also apply to decimal TR implementors or users.
Apparently the IBM license fee applies to commercial users (whatever that means) of their decNumber C library. Thus Boost wouldn't want to provide a C++ wrapper that required use of the IBM decNumber C library. PJP points out that the IBM decNumber library "is not the subject of the decimal TR." --Beman