Masahiro Nakagawa and SHOO invited to join Phobos developers

[Don]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:hrcbrr$2t7e$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Moritz Warning wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe you can talk to the Tango devs to clear up this matter?
>> I suggest that the Tango devs convert the Tango modules that can get full 
>> agreement by their respective devs be converted to the Boost license. The 
>> Boost license is free of the legal problems that BSD has, and is 
>> compatible with the Phobos license.
> 
> It looks like the Tango devs are pretty much settled on BSD-only with some 
> hack to get around the binary attribution thing: 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/ticket/1701  (*Shrug*, well, at least 
> it's not as insanely verbose and impenetrable as Apache 2.0...)
> 
> I *hate* licenses...(That's why I use the zlib one, none of the public 
> domain problems, all of the freedoms that I've been told Boost offers, and 
> none of Boost's idiotic over-verbosity.)

Yeah, we all feel the same way.
But I don't think the boost license is verbose. It's 4% of the length of 
the GPL:

zlib:     957 characters
boost:    1361 (1/3 of which comes from US legal requirements).
Apache2:                 9219
Academic free license3: 10332
GPL 3:                  32069