David Abrahams wrote:
- A document that say BSL is an absolute requirement - A mailing list announcement that BSL is now an absolute requirement
I've no comment if such change is good or not, but I'm worried about such global decision being made silently.
I don't have time to dig these things up right now, and maybe there wasn't even a formal "announcement" per se, but it is common knowledge that the point of the BSL was to get Boost under a single license and there has been a massive, well-publicized, effort to get permissions from library authors so we could do just that.
Sorry, but getting as many libraries as possible under BSL (which is indeed well-publicized effort) is not the same as prohibiting libraries not under BSL completely. The latter goal might be obvious to you or to boost moderators, but don't you find a proposal to rip a part of Boost based on policy that's not documented anywhere a little weird? - Volodya