On 28/11/2007, Mingnan Guo <hnxgc_pub@yahoo.com> wrote:
Can any body grant BSL license with some conditions, such as only free for non-commercial use, or free for small-entities (a company with less than 30 employees)?
I guess this type of license will be disallowed for its pollution to the BSL, am i right?
Based on the License Background (http://boost.org/more/license_info.html) and Who's Using Boost (http://boost.org/doc/html/who_s_using_boost_/shrink.html), such a license would seem to be against the goals of Boost. I think to have the types of restrictions you wish for, you'll need a much more elaborate license than a BSL-styled one. I think that, since you're allowed to redistribute Boost code quite freely, it's possible that a naïve addition would make it possible for a small entity to repackage boost and have that repackaged library usable without restrictions. Patents are icky; IANAL.