FFI licensing [Was: Hello-C mailing list?]

On 2005-06-29, Kenny Tilton <ktilton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> Who knows where this will end up? All projects have friendly licenses
> and are free to borrow from each other. Hello-C by name may cease to
> exist or may end up with its own project. Meanwhile the CFFI developer
> has responded positively to Hello-C extending his work, so the source
> will be in a branch of the CFFI CVS tree for now.
>
> Hope that is not too confusing. :)

Well, sorry to add to the confusion, but the licensing issue is not
clear, and that is my fault. I originally licensed UFFI under Franz's
Lesser Lisp GPL (LLGPL). However, I subsequently changed the license
to the more liberal BSD license. I updated the LICENSE file with this
information, but neglected to update license header in the individual
source files. I will rectify this discordance.

My inclination is complete the intended transition by change the
license test in the source files to a BSD license. However, that would
prevent UFFI from participating in the "borrowing" process you
mentioned. How would you feel about following the transition to a BSD
license for your UFFI fork?

PS Congratulations on the funding for lispnyc's summer of code

--
Kevin Rosenberg
kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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