"David B. Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "John Maddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> 011f01c2979d$e3c6a020$cb5287d9@1016031671">news:011f01c2979d$e3c6a020$cb5287d9@1016031671...
>> [...]
>> Hard to make any patent guarentees I think, as I'm sure the inventors of
>> the .gif format would attest to.
>
> Maybe the Boost moderators could solicit donations from companies
> with a vested interest in the success of Boost.
Volunteering the boost moderators for more work is always the last
resort of the desperate <wink>
> In particular, it would be interesting if a legal advisory
> panel/committee or some such could be assembled on a purely
> voluntary basis to perform patent searches and and give advice on
> license terms. It seems that if some well-heeled companies gain
> some benefit from using Boost, this is a reasonably small way they
> can contribute, with resources that they are already paying for
> anyway.
It would be very interesting if someone would emerge from the
community who was willing to set up and coordinate such a panel (hint,
hint).
And if Boost is a legal non-profit organization
It's not. Maybe it should be, though I'm not convinced.
> then maybe the donations could be tax deductible as well? I have no
> idea. Also, it would help Boost authors devise licenses that are
> fair, but perhaps offer a stronger level of protection to potential
> library users.
It's very clear to me that we should be moving in the direction of a
single license, so that authors would for the most part not be
devising their own license text.
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David Abrahams
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