Gregory Colvin wrote:
It seems that doing it by reference to a web page amounts to Boost reserving the right to change terms in the future, possibly to the disadvantage of the authors and users. But I see lots of code that refers to the GPL that way, so this is another question for the lawyers.
Oh, I'd missed that. I assumed the link would reference the license in the downloaded distribution, rather than the online version. That way you are bound to the license you downloaded, rather than a license potentially changing without your notice.
Most licenses solve this issue by version numbering, don't they? The GPL certainly does. A typical license reference for a GPLed file:
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
You wouldn't necessarily want to include the "any later version" clause, but boost might want to version the license...
Plus, not all PCs with Boost distributions are going to have Internet connections. In these cases you really do need to include the license with the distribution. [Especially as you are binding distribution of the license as a requirement (in appropriate circumstances)]
I would agree with that.
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