[triage] Re: For Approval: Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

Zak Greant zak at greant.com
Sat Nov 17 17:11:55 UTC 2007


Hi John, Greetings All,

On Sep 15, 2007, at 11:30PDT (CA), 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.

This is a separate issue from others that have been raised.

I've created ticket:

   https://osi.osuosl.org/ticket/59

to capture John's statement.

I've given it a descriptive title that has meaning when read by itself:

   Objection: Boost Software License does not grant right to  
distribute derivative works

Note that I've linked back to the parent ticket and that I've again  
made sure to include #45 in the keywords field.

We won't need to do this when we get the master tickets plugin  
installed.

Cheers!
--zak



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