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[Mgboost-developers] mgBoost license

[Andreas S. <sed...@ho...>]

I took the Boost software license 1.0 and decided to deploy mgBoost =
under these terms.

Its a pretty liberal license, short and precise allowing the end user =
basically everything besides violating your copyrights.
Its a "copylefted" license - not a philosophical and "viral" one however =
as a GPL would be.

What is your thoughts regarding a license ? Project is hosted on =
sourceforge so basically it needs to be an OSI approved open source =
license.
Since they accept the Boost Software license however I suppose that they =
are much less stress-free than they write and it can be compatible =
licenses as well as long as it stays "open source"

On magicu-l I already announced that I would like to add a beerware =
paragraph and I just googled for it.

I found at http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/
/*
 * =
-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---
 * "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
 * <ph...@Fr...> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice =
you
 * can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and =
you think
 * this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return Poul-Henning =
Kamp
 * =
-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---
 */I like it! Should we use it ?

[Mgboost-developers] welcome to mgboost-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

[Andreas S. <sed...@ho...>]

Hi developers (Frank and Jaco :-)!

I fulfilled your requests for developer membership and gave you quite =
powerful rights.
Its easter time now and we should wait and see if there's more =
participation before we start with discussions who is doing what and ...
and if particular features / components / ... should go to mgBoost or =
better in another, stand-alone project, which we'ld start.

For mgBoost there needs to be at least one more project manager to =
ensure availibility for request from users and sourceforge staff.

The google group for mbBoost I closed (I did not delete it; its just not =
possible to join without invitation and see messages without being a =
member).
I thought its maybe a good place for lengthy discussions which we can be =
used instead of private mail if its relevant for people who join later.

Let me know what you think about mgBoost, your ideas, what you plan to =
contribute, where you think you have your strength, .... or open =
discussions it in the forums and/or mailing lists of this project.

Thanks for joining this project, happy easter and best regards,

Andreas.