Re: Boost libraries - useful for Octave?

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Andrey Romanenko wrote:

> 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


Right.  Actually, go here and scroll down a bit...

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

You'll see this listed as a compatible license:

   Boost Software License

      This is a simple, permissive non-copyleft free software license,
      compatible with the GNU GPL.

If a license is "compatible" with the GNU GPL...

   This means you can combine a module which was released under that
   license with a GPL-covered module to make one larger program.

   http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/license-list.html

(That line is in the Introduction.)

Mike



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