On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 at 07:02:26 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Monday, 12 October 2020 at 00:43:51 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 October 2020 at 17:35:26 UTC, 9il wrote:
>>> [snip]
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>> I can't speak to the technical differences between the two. My understanding is that MIT is more permissive than Boost, ....
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> I make all my stuff Boost so that anyone can do whatever they want with the code. So I'm hoe its not that permissive.

Boost says:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by
this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the
Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to
do so, all subject to the following:

MIT says:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The difference is that MIT says you can use it without restriction, including a few things, while Boost says you can do some things. I only meant that MIT license was more permissive in that if there are other things you want to do with it that are not listed on Boost (I don't know what that would be), then MIT would allow it.

On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 at 10:30:41 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> The difference is that MIT says you can use it without restriction, including a few things, while Boost says you can do some things. I only meant that MIT license was more permissive in that if there are other things you want to do with it that are not listed on Boost (I don't know what that would be), then MIT would allow it.

Just make sure you don't grant exclusive rights :)

On Friday, 30 October 2020 at 10:12:58 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 at 10:30:41 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> The difference is that MIT says you can use it without restriction, including a few things, while Boost says you can do some things. I only meant that MIT license was more permissive in that if there are other things you want to do with it that are not listed on Boost (I don't know what that would be), then MIT would allow it.
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> Just make sure you don't grant exclusive rights :)

Ilya ended up going with the Apache license.

https://github.com/libmir/mir-algorithm/blob/master/LICENSE