Why doesn the license prohibit the copyright holder from patenting the covered software?
No one who distributes their code under the terms of this license could turn around and sue a user for patent infringement. (Devin Smith) Boost’s lawyers were well aware of patent provisions in licenses like the GPL and CPL, and would have included such provisions in the Boost license if they were believed to be legally useful.
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