[elephant-devel] License Discussion

[Ian Eslick]

I am writing to see if I can restart the license discussion I saw a 
little of in the archives late last year.  With the SQL backends it 
seems more appropriate to release the next version of elephant as an 
LLGPL code base to encourage wider adoption by folks who work for or 
consult for other companies and can't use the existing elephant code 
with a SQL backend in commercial software.  It certainly makes it more 
motivating for me to contribute to the code base as my lab (sponsored by 
a bunch of companies) has expressed a preference for LLGPL in my own 
library projects.  I've had to strip all the GPL'ed outside lisp 
libraries but am holding for the time being to see if elephant will 
indeed reconsider its license.  :) 

Regardless it's a wonderful system already and the first shot in awhile 
for the lisp community to settle on a PODB.  It's probably also helpful 
that the code is maturing at the same time as AllegroCache is generating 
some broad interest.

Please consider this my request for the LLGPL.  
http://opensource.franz.com/preamble.html

Regards,
Ian