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embarrassingly.</p>
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<h3 align="left"><a name="License">License</a> requirements</h3>
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<ul>
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- <li>Must be simple to read and understand.
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+ <li>Must be simple to read and understand.
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</li>
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- <li>Must grant permission without fee to copy, use and modify the software for any use
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- (commercial and non-commercial).
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+ <li>Must grant permission without fee to copy, use and modify the software for
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+ any use (commercial and non-commercial).
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</li>
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- <li>Must require that the license appear on all copies of the software source
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- code.
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+ <li>Must require that the license appear on all copies of the software source
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+ code.
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</li>
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- <li>Must not require that the license appear with executables or other binary
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- uses of the library.
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+ <li>Must not require that the license appear with executables or other binary
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+ uses of the library.
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</li>
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- <li>Must not require that the source code be
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- available for execution or other binary uses of the library.
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+ <li>Must not require that the source code be available for execution or other
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+ binary uses of the library.
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- <li>May restrict the use of the name and description of the library to the
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- standard version found on the Boost web site.</li>
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+ <li>May restrict the use of the name and description of the library to the
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+ standard version found on the Boost web site.</li>
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</ul>
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+<p>The preferred way to meet these license requirements is to use the
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+<a href="../LICENSE">Boost Software License</a>. See <a href="license_info.html">
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+license information</a>. If for any reason you do not intend to use the Boost
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+Software License, please discuss the issues on the Boost
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+<a href="mailing_lists.htm#main">developers mailing list</a> first.</p>
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<h3 align="left"><a name="Portability">Portability</a> requirements</h3>
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- <li>Begin all source files with:
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+ <li>End all documentation files (HTML or otherwise) with a copyright message
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+ and a licensing message. See the <a href="#Copyright">end of this file</a> for
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+ an example of the preferred form.</li>
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+</ul>
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+<ul>
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+ <li>Begin all source files (including programs, headers, scripts, etc.) with:
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<li>A comment line describing the contents of the file.</li>
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- <li>Comments describing copyright and licensing.</li>
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+ <li>Comments describing copyright and licensing. The preferred form is:<br>
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+ <br>
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+ <code>// Copyright Jane Programmer, 2003.<br>
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+ // See accompanying license for terms and conditions of use.</code><br>
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+ <br>
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+ See the <a href="license_info.html">license information page</a> for
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+ details.
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+</li>
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<li>A comment line referencing your library on the Boost web site:<br>
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<br>
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<code>// See http://www.boost.org/libs/foo for documentation.</code><br>
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documentation, while minor fixes are often mentioned in comments within the code
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itself.</p>
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-<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->26 February, 2003<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="40410" --></p>
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+<p> © <a name="Copyright">Copyright</a> Beman Dawes 2003.</p>
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+<p> See accompanying <a href="../LICENSE">license</a> for terms and conditions
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+of use.</p>
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+<p>Revised
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+<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->18 August, 2003<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="34485" --></p>
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