[Python-Dev] Boost Software License (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Jan 28 10:44:16 CET 2013

Le Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:30:23 +0100, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> a écrit :

Serhiy Storchaka, 27.01.2013 17:52: > Is Boost Software License [1] compatible with Python license? Can I > steal some code from Boost library [2]? > > [1] http://www.boost.org/LICENSE10.txt > [2] http://www.boost.org/

Depends on what you want to do with it after stealing it. Assuming you want to add it to CPython, two things to consider: - Isn't Boost C++ code? - Usually, people who contribute code to CPython must sign a contributors agreement. As far as I understand it, that would be those who wrote it, not those who "stole" it from them.

That's the only potentially contentious point. Otherwise, the boost license looks like a fairly ordinary non-copyleft free license, and therefore should be compatible with the PSF license.

That said, we already ship "non-contributed" code such as zlib, expat or libffi; and even in the core you can find such code such as David Gay's dtoa.c.

Regards

Antoine.

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