Editing Boost (C++ libraries) (section)

== License ==
{{Infobox software license
| name            = Boost Software License
| image           = 
| caption         =
| author          = Devin Smith<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.boost.org/users/license.html |title=Boost Software License |date=December 3, 2003 |publisher=[[Boost (C++ libraries)]] |access-date=April 21, 2025 |archive-date=April 24, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250424015917/https://www.boost.org/users/license.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| version         = 1.0
| publisher       = 
| date            = 17 August 2003
| spdx            = BSL-1.0
| OSI approved    = Yes
| Debian approved =
| FSF approved    = Yes<ref name=fsf/>
| GPL compatible  = Yes<ref name=fsf/>
| copyleft        = No<ref name=fsf/>
| linking         = Yes
| website         = {{URL|https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt}}
}}

Boost is licensed under its own [[free software|free]], [[open-source license]], known as the Boost Software License.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt|title=Boost Software License - Version 1.0|format=TXT|date=August 17, 2003|access-date=December 22, 2023}}</ref> It is a permissive license in the style of the [[BSD license]] and the [[MIT license]], but without requiring [[Attribution (copyright)|attribution]] for redistribution in [[Binary file|binary form]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boost.org/users/license.html |title=Boost Software License |last=Dawes |first=Beman |access-date=2016-08-01}}</ref> The license has been [[Open Source Initiative|OSI-approved]] since February 2008<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/178539|title = Boost mailing list archive|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161107222035/http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/178539|archive-date = 2016-11-07|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://opensource.org/licenses/BSL-1.0|title = Boost Software License 1.0 (BSL-1.0) {{!}} Open Source Initiative| date=5 February 2008 }}</ref> and is considered a [[free software license]], [[License compatibility|compatible]] with the [[GNU General Public License]], by the [[Free Software Foundation]].<ref name=fsf>{{Cite web|url = https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#boost|title = Various Licenses and Comments about Them - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)}}</ref>