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[Boost] Problems when downloading the LICENSE_1_0.txt and boostcpp.jam

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Description

Many issues reported about problems when downloading the LICENSE_1_0.txt and boostcpp.jam.

Failures:

Downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boostorg/boost/boost-1.73.0/LICENSE_1_0.txt... Failed. Status: 6;"Couldn't resolve host name"
Downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boostorg/boost/boost-1.73.0/boostcpp.jam... Failed. Status: 6;"Couldn't resolve host name"

Possible solutions are:

boost_LICENSE_1_0.zip

boost-1.73.0-boostcpp.zip

boost-1.74.0-boostcpp.zip

Boost-1.75.0:
boost_LICENSE_1_0.zip
boost-1.75.0.beta1-boostcpp.zip

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