On Tue, 1 Sep 2020, 12:13 pm Bryce Adelstein Lelbach aka wash via Boost, < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
If we really believe we need a lawyer for this, it will probably cost money.
Boost only needs legal advice if Boost wants to avoid passing the license buck onto users of Boost.Text. And the user feedback here is that such avoidance is not essential and much preferable to having to depend on the icu library. The only barrier to passing through the license (and it only applies to the generated files, nothing else) is Boost policy. Boost doesn't need legal advice to grant/allow an exception to that policy only for code generated from other people's copyright "data only" source, only as explicitly granted by Boost, presumably only granted after Boost have attempted to get the upstream copyright holder(s) to allow at least this specific use under BSL...