[LLVMdev] Forward: Discussion about custom memory allocators for STL

[Chris Lattner]

On May 17, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>> Boost as it has a bad name in some quarters, regardless of its  
>> license,
>> for including work that is not safe for commercial users to take  
>> on. Ie,
>> there are so many contributors, and their contribution tracking has  
>> been
>> poor in the past, that business affairs departments in commercial
>> companies, and their associated patent lawyers, are unable to  
>> determine
>> how much of Boost is truly the authors' own work, and how much is  
>> borrowed.
>
> Isn't this applicable to LLVM itself?

Yes.  I don't really buy that argument against using boost.  There are  
other valid arguments against using specific boost libraries, but  
contribution tracking seems fairly minor.

-Chris