On 2020-06-15 19:19, Phil Endecott via Boost wrote:
2. Some files have a copyright header which is not the Boost licence. Example: https://github.com/tzlaine/text/blob/master/include/boost/text/transcode_alg...
This one has a requirement that binary distribution includes the copyright notice, which is not a requirement of the Boost licence, and will be problematic for some users.
Are the only affected files the SIMD implementation, (c) Robert N Steagall? If so, can this be disabled (by default?) by the user to avoid the copyright notice requirement?
I think the fact that Boost uses the Boost Software License is a valuable feature. Having differently licensed files complicates inclusion in the downstream projects. In the particular case you referenced, it seems the license is 3-clause BSD. That license is incompatible with Boost license requirements: - Must not require that the license appear with executables or other binary uses of the library. https://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#License I think, this issue should be blocking library acceptance.