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Re: Boost libraries - useful for Octave?
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Andrey Romanenko |
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Re: Boost libraries - useful for Octave? |
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Tue, 3 May 2005 22:59:47 +0100 |
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Hi Steve,
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
Andrey
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