diff --git a/blanket-permission.txt b/blanket-permission.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+The following people hereby grant permission to apply the Boost
+Software License, Version 1.0 to all contributions made to the Boost
+group. The new license is allowed to replace all former licenses.
+
+Daniel Frey (d.frey -at- gmx.de, daniel.frey -at- aixigo.de)
diff --git a/license_info.html b/license_info.html
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@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 <a href="#History">History</a><br>
 <a href="#Rationale">Rationale</a><br>
 <a href="#FAQ">FAQ</a><br>
+<a href="#Transition">Transition</a><br>
 <a href="#Acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a></p>
 
 <h2><a name="Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
@@ -181,6 +182,16 @@ belongs in books that are sold where, in fact, all rights (e.g., to reproduce
 the book, etc.) are being reserved in the publisher or author. I think it 
 shouldn't be in the BSD license.&quot;</p>
 
+<h2><a name="Transition">Transition</a></h2>
+
+<p>To ease the transition of the code base towards the new common
+license, several people decided to give a <a
+href="blanket-permission.txt">blank permission</a> for all 
+their contributions to use the new license. This hopefully helps
+maintainers to switch to the new license once the list contains enough
+names without asking over and over again for each change. Please
+consider adding your name to the list.</p> 
+
 <h2><a name="Acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a></h2>
 <p>Dave Abrahams led the Boost effort to develop better licensing. The legal 
 team was led by
@@ -193,9 +204,9 @@ contributed analysis of Boost issues and drafts of various legal documents.
 Boost members reviewed drafts of the license. Beman Dawes wrote this web page.</p>
 <hr>
 <p>Revised
-<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->26 November, 2003<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39365" --></p>
+<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->03 December, 2003<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39365" --></p>
 
-<p> © Copyright Beman Dawes 2003.</p>
+<p> © Copyright Beman Dawes, Daniel Frey 2003.</p>
 <p> Use, modification, and distribution are subject to the Boost Software 
 License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">
 LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">
@@ -203,4 +214,4 @@ www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)</p>
 
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