At 03:55 PM 9/18/2003, Smith, Devin wrote:

 > A few comments with regard to placement of the license, references to
 > the license, etc.:
 > 
 > * Because the library authors are the licensors, Boost cannot change the
 > terms under which their libraries are licensed without permission.  If
 > you can't contact the library authors or they won't agree, Boost may
 > have to ship multiple Boost libraries with multiple licenses.
 > 
 > Arguably you could have all authors agree ahead of time that by
 > submitting their code, they're agreeing to license the code under any
 > future versions of the Boost license that is developed and agreed upon
 > by the Boost Moderators or whomever.  Then Boost could update all of the
 > licenses at once, having received permission to do so.  I'm not
 > comfortable with this for a variety of reasons including the loose
 > organizational structure of Boost and the lack of any requirement that
 > Boost contributors expressly agree to terms and conditions before
 > submitting their code.  I'd rather just see a reference by the author to
 > a specific version of the license in or in association with the code.

OK. That may have the effect of freezing some libraries at a particular 
version of the Boost license. It makes license stability even more 
important. But that is probably a good thing anyhow.

 > * I'm not sure whether anyone's arguing that new license versions should
 > apply to licensees retroactively, but Boost really can't and shouldn't
 > try to do that.  Licensees have accepted particular terms at the time
 > they downloaded the code.
 > 
 > * I recommend that Boost not refer to a license _only_ by URL, because
 > URLs can become unavailable for various reasons.
 > 
 > * As long as there's a way to identify the license that doesn't require
 > a URL to work, adding an additional URL reference to the license doesn't
 > hurt.
 > 
 > * I recommend the following:
 > 
 >   - Use the following text to refer to the license:
 > 
 >     Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software
 > License Version 1.0.
 > 
 >   - Include a copy of each version of the Boost license in use by a
 >     shipping library in the Boost distribution.  The version number
 >     should be identifiable both from the license file's name and its
 >     contents

Ah! The contents did identify the version, but the file name didn't. I've 
now renamed the file in CVS.

 >   - Optionally add a URL to *stable* license text, e.g.
 > 
 >     Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software
 > License Version 1.0 (http://boost.org/LICENSE-1.0).

Thanks for the clarifications,

--Beman 

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