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Boost.org boostbook module
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Please clarify the license for boostbook/xsl/caramel #22

Open jwakely opened 1 year ago

jwakely commented 1 year ago

The directory contains this license file, which seems to be a form of the MTLL license: https://github.com/boostorg/boostbook/blob/develop/xsl/caramel/LICENSE

However, the other three files in that directory all say:

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)

So which is it? If those files are distributed under BSL-1.0 then why is the other license file there?

This complicates things for downstream packagers like Linux distros, who need to audit and record all relevant licenses used by a package.

jwakely commented 1 year ago

So which is it? If those files are distributed under BSL-1.0 then why is the other license file there?

And if those files really are covered by that license file, then they shouldn't claim otherwise.

Lastique commented 10 months ago

I think this should be addressed to @DougGregor as, according to history, he was the one who added these files.