[elephant-devel] License Discussion

[Ben]

it's fine with me and andrew, so i'm happy with LLGPL.  on the other
hand, there are some licensing issues with using sleepycat itself, so
that should be taken into account.....

B

On 1/23/06, Robert L. Read <read at robertlread.net> wrote:
>  For the code that I have written, I am completely in accordance with this
>  suggestion to use the LLGPL.
>
>  However, Ben and Andrew and others are really the primary authors; unless
>  we reach consensus with them, and perhaps others, I don't see how we
>  can make the switch.
>
>
>  On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 23:45 -0500, Ian Eslick wrote:
>  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
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