From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-05-15T06:23:17+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveState Contest

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:07:57AM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> The problem is that they have written there own debugger (for the
> language and for there regexpr tool). I can understand that they don't
> want to see there code also becoming GPL'ed.

But regex.c is LGPL so it should be less "infectious" than GPL,
shouldn't it?

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