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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html">
<title>Boost Software License Background</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<table border="1" bgcolor="#007F7F" cellpadding="2">
<table summary="Navigational header"
border="1" bgcolor="#007F7F" cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><img src="../boost.png" alt="boost.png (6897 bytes)" width="277" height="86"></td>
<td><a href="../index.htm"><font face="Arial" color="#FFFFFF"><big>Home</big></font></a></td>
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<p><b>How should Boost programmers apply the license to source and
header files?</b></p>
<p>Include a comment based on the following template, substituting
<p>Add a comment based on the following template, substituting
appropriate text for the italicized portion:
<pre>// Copyright <i>2004 Jane Coder</i>.
// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
// file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
<br>
<br>
<pre>
// Copyright <i>Joe Coder 2004 - 2006</i>.
// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
// (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
</pre>
<br>
Please leave an empty line before and after the above comment block.
It is fine if the copyright and license messages are not on different lines; in
no case there should be other intervening text. Do not include
"All rights reserved" anywhere.<br>
<p>Other ways of licensing source files have been considered, but some
of them turned out to unintentionally nullify legal elements of the
@ -154,6 +164,17 @@ corporate legal departments evaluate the boost distribution.
Creativity in license reference language is strongly discouraged, but
judicious changes in the use of whitespace are fine.
<p><b>How should the license be applied to documentation files, instead?</b></p>
<p>Very similarly to the way it is applied to source files: the user should
see the very same text indicated in the template above, with the only difference
that both the local and the web copy of LICENSE_1_0.txt should be linked to.
Refer to the HTML source codee of this document in case of doubt.
<p>Note that the location of the local LICENSE_1_0.txt needs to be indicated
relatively to the position of your documentation file
(<code>../LICENSE_1_0.txt</code>, <code>../../LICENSE_1_0.txt</code> etc.)</p>
<p><b>How is the Boost license different from the
<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php">GNU General Public
License (GPL)</a>?</b></p>
@ -213,7 +234,6 @@ shouldn't be in the BSD license.&quot;</p>
<p><b>Do I have to copyright/license trivial files?</b>
<p>Even a test file that just contains an empty <code>main()</code>
should have a copyright. Files without copyrights make corporate
lawyers nervous, and that's a barrier to adoption. The more of Boost
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Boost members reviewed drafts of the license. Beman Dawes wrote this web page.</p>
<hr>
<p>Revised
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<p> © Copyright 2003-2004 Beman Dawes, Daniel Frey, David Abrahams.</p>
<p> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
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