[Ecls-list] libevent

[Brian Spilsbury]

On 5/26/06, Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <lisp at arrakis.es> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 19:03 +0900, Brian Spilsbury wrote:
> > On 5/26/06, Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <lisp at arrakis.es> wrote:
> > > I have no problem with it. The source code of libevent should however be
> > > distributed separately.
> >
> > Personally I'd rather bundle them for convenience, and being sure that
> > it should actually compile, but it isn't a significant issue.
>
> Another thing is that it would be desirable that support for libevent be
> conceived as a separate module, distributed in contrib/ and which can be
> loaded from ECL. The reason is a license issue: the advertising clause
> from BSD is incompatible with LGPL, AFAIR.

It seems to be the same as
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php
which is listed
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD
as being GPL compatible.

So, I guess it's mainly an issue of aesthetics, unless I've misread something.

Regards,
Brian.