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Appendix E Open Source Licences
do so, all subject to the following:
The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
a source language processor.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO
EVENT
SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE
LIABLE
FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR
OTHERWISE,
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE
OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
RATIONALE
The following rationale was provided by Devin Smith, the lawyer who wrote the
Boost Software License. It has been edited slightly for brevity. Editorial additions
are shown in square brackets.
BENEFIT OF COMMON SOFTWARE LICENSE
If one of Boost's goals is to ease use and adoption of the various libraries made
available by Boost, it does make sense to try to standardize the licenses under
which the libraries are made available to users. (I make some recommendations
about a possible short-form license below.)
[Standardizing the license will not] necessarily address the issue of satisfying
corporate licensees. Each corporation will have its own concerns, based on their
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