"Jeff Garland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since the original copyright holders are effectively changing the > terms I don't see why this would present a problem -- they are > certainly free to change the terms.
Yes, that's my understanding. Thanks for the confirmation. >> I understand that there are no *legal* problems with this (right??), >> but legal problems are not the only problems there are .... > Problems such as? I'm new to Boost and unfamiliar with the local culture. The open- source religion has many sects, some of which are quite zealous. And I'd rather not kick off my involvement in Boost my offending huge numbers of people. David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it was ever accepted by GNU, I think the authors had to sign it > over to the FSF. Did they? You are correct. But we are not doing that; we are just using the same licensing agreement as GNU, so this is not a problem. ===== Glenn G. Chappell <>< [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Mathematical Sciences * Ofc: (907) 474-5736 University of Alaska Fairbanks * Fax: (907) 474-5394 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
