I see there is some progress upstream so it may be reasonable to just wait it out. But since I hacked it up for myself anyway (well, only the grep expression really, did not test the rules file). The following quick hack patch would remove the questionable headers and ensure only properly licensed ones will be included in future versions: --- rules.bak 2016-02-20 14:56:05.532323726 +0100 +++ rules 2016-02-20 14:55:44.165777997 +0100 @@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ find debian/tmp -name .cvsignore | xargs rm -f find debian -empty -type f | xargs rm -f + # remove headers not under boost license + rm $(grep -rL "\(Boost Software License\|LICENSE_1_0.txt\|automatically generated\)" debian/tmp/usr/include) + # package libboost-dbg # package libboost$(PKGVERSION)-dev