9 Jun
2012
9 Jun
'12
12:37 p.m.
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
License and backend ================= Allowing a choice of backend has crucial license advantages, allowing the 'gold standard' optimised GMP, but also allowing the Boost licensed version with remarkably little loss of speed. (I note the price we are paying for the commercial greed and patent abuse that has made maintaining the GPL license status of GMP such a quasi-religious issue).
Let us try to be factual in a section called "License": the license of GMP is *L*GPL. I know everything GNU is anathema in BSD-land, but it does make a difference. (end of digression, please no license flame war) -- Marc Glisse