[Liblas-devel] Boost License compatibility

[Howard Butler]

Mateusz,

I see no problem with us following the Boost license in our  
LICENSE.txt and selectively including Boost headers (like shared_ptr,  
etc) as we need them.

Howard

On Dec 31, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I've stolen and customized boost/cstdint.hpp file with definition of
> integral types with well-known size on different platforms:
>
> http://liblas.org/browser/trunk/include/liblas/cstdint.hpp
>
> According to my knowledge, there is no legal issues with using parts  
> of
> Boost-licensed code. The BSD license is compared to Boost license  
> here:
>
> http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Boost_License/BSD_License
>
> Here are Boost license requirements outlined:
>
> http://www.boost.org/more/lib_guide.htm#License
>
> Could you confirm if my understanding is correct (or it isn't)?
>
> Cheers
> -- 
> Mateusz Loskot
> http://mateusz.loskot.net
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