D library projects : adopting Boost license

[Walter Bright]

Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> It's being discussed here: 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/forums/topic/786#3407

Thanks for the pointer. I see the discussion is about adopting the 
Apache license. I strongly suggest considering the Boost license, as it 
is very permissive, and Phobos has converted to it. Boost has been 
battle-tested in the C++ community for years, and I am not aware of any 
problems or controversies about it.

Another nice plus is that C++ users will likely already be familiar with 
Boost, their company lawyers likely have already approved using Boost 
licensed code, and so will be comfortable using D libraries identically 
licensed.

http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_Software_License

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