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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Marco, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>>><I> Well, GPL seems to meet most of my
requirements for licensing<BR></I>>><I> issues, so I'll prefer using
it.<BR></I><BR>>This means that you can't _use_ BSD code and distribute the
result.<BR>><BR>>><I>From section 2 of the
GPL:<BR></I>>-----<BR>>b) You must cause any work that you distribute or
publish, that in<BR>>whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program
or any part<BR>>thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
parties<BR>>under the terms of this License.<BR>>-----<BR><BR>>This
means that you'll have to find a GPL'd compiler to target, and<BR>>you'll
only be able to use GPL'd libraries. The fact the lisp leaves<BR>>you no
option but to "link" directly to other code makes the GPL far<BR>>more
restrictive than it is for compile-edit-debug languages.<BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>In fact, I'm really far away from open
source licensing issues and can't eloborate precisely at this
time.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Also I've thought about LLGPL, probably it will be really
better than GPL for Lisp development.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>As far as I understand, LLGPL is also permitted on
cl.net?</FONT></DIV>
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