"Don" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message news:hrclc9$gj...@digitalmars.com... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message >> news:hrcbrr$2t7...@digitalmars.com... >>> Moritz Warning wrote: >>> >>>> Maybe you can talk to the Tango devs to clear up this matter? >>> I suggest that the Tango devs convert the Tango modules that can get >>> full agreement by their respective devs be converted to the Boost >>> license. The Boost license is free of the legal problems that BSD has, >>> and is compatible with the Phobos license. >> >> It looks like the Tango devs are pretty much settled on BSD-only with >> some hack to get around the binary attribution thing: >> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/ticket/1701 (*Shrug*, well, at >> least it's not as insanely verbose and impenetrable as Apache 2.0...) >> >> I *hate* licenses...(That's why I use the zlib one, none of the public >> domain problems, all of the freedoms that I've been told Boost offers, >> and none of Boost's idiotic over-verbosity.) > > Yeah, we all feel the same way. > But I don't think the boost license is verbose. It's 4% of the length of > the GPL: > > zlib: 957 characters > boost: 1361 (1/3 of which comes from US legal requirements). > Apache2: 9219 > Academic free license3: 10332 > GPL 3: 32069
Saying a license isn't verbose because it's much shorter than the GPL is like saying a particular restaurant is good just because it's better than eating out of a dumpster. Besides, when 2/3 of...anything...is made up of sentences that are more than 60 words each (I counted), it's just plain badly written, period. (Seriously, 60+ words per sentence?! And the first one ends with a colon, so it's easy to argue it's one 120+ word sentence. Talk about run-on unreadability!) And then, naturally, the other 1/3 is all-caps. Seriously, were they *trying* to prevent people from understanding it? If so, I don't think they could have done a better job. (At least not without hiring the FSF's "Let's do everything we can to enure our profession is needed as much as possible" lawyers.)