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

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Tue Sep 25 19:36:40 UTC 2007


Alexander Terekhov wrote:

> Why can't you do boost.org same favor as gnu.org?
> 
> Just curious.

OSI didn't do GNU any favors.  As you saw, there's no requirement that
the author of the license submit it for approval.  But there are other
requirements, listed at http://opensource.org/approval, that need to be
 satisfied.  This was an issue for GPLv3 too until it was submitted
properly.

Matt Flaschen



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