D library projects : adopting Boost license

[Bill Baxter]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 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.

To be fair I think all those things are true of the Apache license too.

>
> http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_Software_License
>
> ===========================================
> Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003
>
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
> obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by
> this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
> execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the
> Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to
> do so, all subject to the following:
>
> The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
> the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
> must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
> all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
> works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
> a source language processor.
>
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
> SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE
> FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
> ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
> DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
> ========================================================
>

Boost certainly wins on brevity.
Brevity FTW!

It looks to me like Boost and Apache 2.0 say basically exactly the
same thing, just Apache dedicates entire paragraphs to explaining what
the meaning of "is" is.

--bb