From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-15 11:33:05
On Sep 15, 2004, at 9:16 AM, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> John Maddock writes:
>> I've made a set of summaries for BSL conformance available at
>> http://freespace.virgin.net/boost.regex/index.html
>>
>> There's one summary per library + one for all of Boost, I'd encourage
>> everyone to take a look to see whether their work can be used under
>> the BSL
>> alone, or if there are non-BSL dependencies that they rely upon.
>
> First of all, thank you for your work on this!
>
> Question: is there a reason why we cannot automatically convert all
> these
> "Boost Software License, Version 1.0 (variant #N)" to the canonical
> wording?
It's almost trivial to do with bcp. A few minutes hacking in
$BOOST_ROOT/tools/bcp/scan_licence.cpp should do the trick; just detect
the case where is_non_bsl_license is false but the license index isn't
the canonical version of the license.
Doug