[elephant-devel] Re: BerkeleyDB license (Was: Elephant license)

[Ben]

Thanks Edi for doing this homework.

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Edi Weitz wrote:

> They have a clause in their license that makes exceptions for Perl and
> Python but this clause doesn't apply to Lisp because a Lisp
> application maps Berkeley DB into its address space.[1]

this is an utterly ironic bit of bad luck for lisp: who knew there was
an economic argument in the compile / interpret debate?

B