For Approval: Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

[Donovan Hawkins]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, John Cowan wrote:

> I'd say that the problem with this license is that it does not
> (probably inadvertently) grant the right to distribute derivative
> works.  Arguably, this right is not necessary, as derivative works
> belong to the deriver, but it's good to spell it out.

I noticed that, though as you say it isn't strictly necessary. That didn't 
seem to be SourceForge's problem with it though (or at least, they didn't 
get that far before rejecting it).

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