[elephant-devel] Re: QDBM Support

[Alex Mizrahi]

 IE> It's the definition of linking that is usually troublesome with Lisp
 IE> and licensing.  If we look at it like Python as you intend below, then
 IE> only the Lisp image itself need be open source (i.e. SBCL).  However
 IE> Lisp is also compiled and dynamically linked with the image, which
 IE> tends to make us look a little bit more like a dynamically linked
 IE> program that GNU, in general, considers part of the application (i.e.
 IE> contaminated)

heh, that's interesting.. it's legal to use BDB from CLISP (since 
technically CLISP doesn't differ from Perl or Python), but illegal from 
SBCL?