From: Ruben Perez (rubenperez038_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-05-15 13:58:59
On Fri, 13 May 2022 at 19:29, Vinnie Falco <vinnie.falco_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:12 AM Ruben Perez via Boost
> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > ...Google's protobufs...creates licensing
> > conflicts with anything submitted to Boost.
>
> If you are only reading protobufs and using the most common subset of
> its features, it should be fairly easy to do a clean-room
> implementation of just the part of the protobuf format that you need
> to make your library work. It wouldn't be that much code either. It
> would not be necessary (or desirable) to require linking with the
> stock protobuf library.
It's good to know that this is not impossible, as I could
see this library implementing the X protocol at some point.
I don't have the time right now to do this, but it's good to know
it can be done.
Regards,
Ruben.