On Jul 10, 2012, at 8:07 PM, Wei Dai wrote:

> Thanks to some prodding from Zooko, I've decided that the main reasons for 
> Crypto++ having its own license no longer applies, so I might as well choose 
> a standard open source license for it. The Boost Software License (see 
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsl1.0 and 
> http://www.boost.org/users/license.html), with an added disclaimer that the 
> library is only copyrighted as a compilation, seems suitable since like the 
> current Crypto++ license it doesn’t require the copyright notice and license 
> to be included in object code distributions. Does anyone have any other 
> suggestions or comments? 

I've released a lot of code (Boost, ASL and others) under the BSL (hrm, need 
more acronyms), and haven't had any problems nor complaints.

If there's anything left in crypto++ that I have committed, you have my 
permission to relicense it under the BSL (not that you need it)

-- Marshall

Marshall Clow     Idio Software   <mailto:[email protected]>

A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly 
moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
        -- Yu Suzuki

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