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Re: Boost libraries - useful for Octave?
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Mike Miller |
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Re: Boost libraries - useful for Octave? |
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Tue, 3 May 2005 18:57:39 -0500 (CDT) |
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Andrey Romanenko wrote:
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 22:39, Steve C. Thompson wrote:
The Boost license permits the creation of derivative works for
commercial or non-commercial use with no legal requirement to release
your source code.
That seems to be in clear violation of the GPL.
I am not a lawyer but the Boost license looks okay. It is more
permissive than the GPL is, sort of the BSD license and the latter is
compatible with the GPL.
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/license-list.html
Right. Actually, go here and scroll down a bit...
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
You'll see this listed as a compatible license:
Boost Software License
This is a simple, permissive non-copyleft free software license,
compatible with the GNU GPL.
If a license is "compatible" with the GNU GPL...
This means you can combine a module which was released under that
license with a GPL-covered module to make one larger program.
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/license-list.html
(That line is in the Introduction.)
Mike
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