Updated GPL info

[SVN r22578]
This commit is contained in:
Dave Abrahams 2004-04-01 17:35:16 +00:00
parent 160cc4b032
commit 4e0090f02b

View File

@ -135,10 +135,15 @@ license.</p>
<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php">GNU General Public <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php">GNU General Public
License (GPL)</a>?</b></p> License (GPL)</a>?</b></p>
<p>The Boost license permits the creation of derivative works for commercial or <p>The Boost license permits the creation of derivative works for
non-commercial use with no legal requirement to release your source code. Other commercial or non-commercial use with no legal requirement to release
differences include Boost not requiring reproduction of copyright messages for your source code. Other differences include Boost not requiring
object code redistribution. The GPL is also much longer.</p> reproduction of copyright messages for object code redistribution, and
the fact that the Boost license is not &quot;viral&quot;: if you
distribute your own code along with some Boost code, the Boost license
applies only to the Boost code (and modified versions thereof); you
are free to license your own code under any terms you like. The GPL is
also much longer, and thus may be harder to understand.</p>
<p><b>Why the phrase &quot;machine-executable object code generated by a source <p><b>Why the phrase &quot;machine-executable object code generated by a source
language processor&quot;?</b></p> language processor&quot;?</b></p>