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

[me22]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Dominic Hamon <dom.hamon at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a thread elsewhere on this mailing list illustrating how
> important it is for the maintainers of LLVM to keep LLVM usable in a
> commercial environment. As such, I would strongly recommend avoiding
> 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.
>
> Given the delicate relationship between the commercial sector and open
> source, adding Boost usage to LLVM will harm the commercial sectors view
> of this product.
>

Do you have a source for that opinion?  I've never heard that view of Boost.