Re: [boost] [simd] Hardware support

On 4/9/17 5:29 AM, Mathias Gaunard via Boost wrote:

On 9 April 2017 at 09:30, Niall Douglas via Boost wrote:

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If copyright weren't a problem, I'd suggest the Apache 2.0 licence which gives stronger guarantees to the end user (a Boost library doesn't actually have to have the Boost licence, it's just strongly recommended). But you don't own the copyright to the entire library.

The library only has NumScale copyright notices, so they claim ownership of the library, and could re-license it.

I'm not a lawyer. The Boost license was vetted very carefully by specialized legal counsel. No one has yet raised the possibility that a license, once granted, could be revoked. So whatever NumScale were to do in the future, would not affect Boost.

AFAIK the Boost Software License requires keeping the copyright notices of any work it is derived from, so this is a violation of the BSL.

This is not clear to me from reading the actual license. http://www.boost.org/users/license.htmlhttp://www.boost.org/users/license.ht...

Boost.SIMD is derived from the NT2 library which was a BSL-licensed collaboration between various parties.

I have not idea what a "BSL-licensed collaboration" is Robert Ramey