On 12/9/10, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like having build-index in lisp since I know lisp and don't know perl.
Yeah, me too. Perl is really a disaster area of a language.
But the regex stuff makes it very useful all the same.
> :-) Having cl-ppcre is quite nice too. I have no objections on it
> being included. There might be a license issue, though, since it's a
> BSD-license and maxima is GPL. I don't know if the GPL license virus
> will affect cl-ppcre if it's included in maxima. I think it would be
> hard to say we're merely conglomerating cl-ppcre with maxima. We could
> probably ask the author about it if it's a problem.
I don't see a license problem here. To the best of my knowledge,
a binary from GPL + BSD sources can be GPL licensed,
but not BSD licensed. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
best
Robert Dodier