From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-05-14T14:03:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveState Contest

Hi,

In message "Re: ActiveState Contest"
    on 03/05/14, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:

|Isn't that why a new regex engine is being written - apparently the old 
|one was GPL and they want a more BSD-like license.  Though, I really don't 
|understand what the problem with GPL was in this context...

Probably they want something GPL free.  Perl is under dual license
Ruby is under a similar dual license, but regex.[ch] is still LGPL.
So they need to wait until 1.9 (where the new engine will be available).

							matz.