GPL issues and creation of licensing working group (was Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc.)

John Tobey wrote:

> implementation, for which FFI.pm is an attempt at a Perl wrapper, but, as
> you pointed out, ffcall is under GPL.

I think that we should avoid dismissing solutions based on licensing.  My
plan is to write a proposal for a licensing working group, whose job it is
to get questions from other groups such as:

"Can we work out the fact that we want to use ffcall, yet is GPL'ed?"

And find possible solutions, which may including convincing the developers
to give whatever licensing we need.

The group would also work out plans for licensing of perl6 itself.

RFC for the creation of the group coming RSN.  :)


-- 
Bradley M. Kuhn  -  http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn

• External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by Garrett Goebel
• [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by John Tobey
• GPL issues and creation of licensing working group (was Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc.) by Bradley M. Kuhn
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI,C::DynaLib etc. by Ask Bjoern Hansen
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI,C::DynaLib etc. by Dan Sugalski
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by Jarkko Hietaniemi
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by John Tobey
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by Simon Cozens
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by John Porter
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by Nathan Torkington
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by Chaim Frenkel
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by Jarkko Hietaniemi