On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 15:30:21 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
"The Boost Software License is based upon the MIT license, but
differs
from the MIT license in that it:
(i) makes clear that licenses can be granted to organizations
as well as
individuals;
(ii) does not require that the license appear with executables
or other
binary uses of the library;
(iii) expressly disclaims -- on behalf of the author and
copyright
holders of the software only -- the warranty of title (a
warranty that,
under the Uniform Commercial Code, is separate from the
warranty of
non-infringement)
(iv) does not extend the disclaimer of warranties to
licensees, so that
they may, if they choose, undertake such warranties (e.g., in
exchange
for payment)."
http://ideas.opensource.org/ticket/45
Very good point. Is it too late to change again ?
By the way, what is the status of the attribution clause ?
If it will be decided to change the license, please pay attention
to how should programmers apply the license to source and header
files:
"Add a comment based on the following template, substituting
appropriate text for the italicized portion:
// Copyright Joe Coder 2004 - 2006.
// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
// (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
Please leave an empty line before and after the above comment
block. It is fine if the copyright and license messages are not
on different lines; in no case there should be other intervening
text. Do not include "All rights reserved" anywhere.
Other ways of licensing source files have been considered, but
some of them turned out to unintentionally nullify legal elements
of the license. Having fixed language for referring to the
license helps corporate legal departments evaluate the boost
distribution. Creativity in license reference language is
strongly discouraged, but judicious changes in the use of
whitespace are fine."
http://www.boost.org/users/license.html
Alternatively, a license copy may be referenced at
http://opensource.org/licenses/bsl1.0.html, which looks nicer. :)
