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

[Cory Nelson]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:41 PM, me22 <me22.ca at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I would also like to see some data on that.  I have heard it once or
twice before on mailing lists, though never any evidence to back it
up, and never from within an actual business.

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Cory Nelson