I want to release some C++ code under MIT license in GitHub. I would like to include required BOOST libraries in the repository. No commercial use is currently foreseen. I am pretty new to IP issues, sorry if these questions are obvious.Can I freely redistribute BOOST binaries in my GitHub repository?Do I need to include the BOOST license additionally to the MIT license for my code?
Licensing: Boost library distributed with my MIT-licensed code
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1.Can I freely redistribute BOOST binaries in my GitHub repository?Yes, you can. The Boost software license reads (emphasis mine):Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization  obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by  this license (the Software) to use, reproduce, display, distribute,  execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the  Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to  do so2.Do I need to include the BOOST license additionally to the MIT license for my code?The license continues:all subject to the following:The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement,  including the above license grant, this restriction and the following  disclaimer, must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole  or in part, and all derivative works of the Software, unless such  copies or derivative works are solely in the form of  machine-executable object code generated by a source language  processor.Which means that your sourcecode repository must include the license, but you don't have to add the license to any compiled binaries you provide.And by the way: The fact that no commercial use is currently foreseen is usually irrelevant when it comes to open source software. Part of the open source definition by the OSI is:No Discrimination Against Fields of EndeavorThe license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in  a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the  program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic  research.So any license which is approved as open source by the OSI (and the Boost license is) won't care about any commercial interests you have.