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Re: Boost libraries - useful for Octave?


From: Andrey Romanenko
Subject: Re: Boost libraries - useful for Octave?
Date: 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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