On 13/04/2017 11:15, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
It might be a good idea to collect such bits of wisdom in a common place (such as the wiki). A good starting point: a list of widely known Free Software licenses, annotated to indicate whether they meet the requirements in http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#License (with explicit references to the clause they don't meet if applicable).
The BSL is generally more permissive than the other popular licenses (in particular placing no obligation of attribution or source-sharing on distribution in binary form); that's typically where the conflicts lie. To most users of the Boost libraries, it doesn't make any difference either way -- they either distribute the libraries in compiled form, which the BSL permits without complications, or they distribute their own library/application in source form typically without redistributing the Boost libraries themselves (instead just telling people where to find them or expecting that they'll be able to find them themselves). The latter approach might technically get them in trouble with their own licenses (eg. if they're using GPL) but most people don't worry about that either.