on Mon May 28 2007, Michael Stevens <list-boost-AT-michael-stevens.de> wrote:
On Sunday 27 May 2007 11:36, Vladimir Prus wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
In that case I vote for ripping ublas out of Boost unless and until the authors fix it. This is crazy; people have had long enough.
crazy ;-)
Interesting. Reading http://boost.org/more/lib_guide.htm#License I see that BSL is the recommended, but not required license. Above, you propose to rip out a part of Boost because it's not BSL. Can you please point me to
- 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.
Indeed.
Well, it's not being made silently; we're discussing it now. Nothing like a radical proposal for getting the issues out into the open, is there? ;-)
With regard to uBLAS I think there is little chance of a license change.
Joerg was contactable up to last year by phone. Email however landed in the bit bucket. He was always very non committal as to a change to a BGL license. I assume a change would require Mathias' agreement. I not sure who Mathias is or if Joerg was still in contact with him. Basically the orignal authors do not seem to be interested in a license change.
We would have to accept that if uBLAS's license becomes unacceptable to the Boost community then uBLAS would have to move. The change to BSL has been around for a long time after all and the BSL is a good thing.
Maybe there would be a gentler solution then Dave's suggested 'ripping out'.
I would love that.
I think a single license for all of Boost is very helpful to users. So the change would have to make the license status very clear. Some kind of 'historical', 'aberrant license' status maybe?
Personally, I don't think it makes much sense. It looks like in the very near future this library will be the one and only piece of Boost that is not under BSL. I think having one single special case hurts Boost way more than it helps. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com