Free Scripting Engine

[Trent Shipley]

TCL is still Berkeley style.

http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/license_terms.html

Ruby's terms are probably worse than PERL's.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Kevin
> Buettner
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:39 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Free Scripting Engine
>
>
> On May 10,  4:46pm, Trent Shipley wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a good scripting engine under a Berkeley
> style license?
> >
> > It should be minimal.  Scalar variables, sequence, branch, and loop: I'm
> > happy.
> >
> > It should get along with C at least as well as PERL.
>
> Why not just use Perl?  Perl is dual licensed under the GPL and the
> Artistic License.  Section 8 of the Artistic license makes Perl
> particularly friendly for your purposes:
>
>     8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution
> is always
>     permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is,
>     when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's
> interfaces visible
>     to the end user of the commercial distribution.  Such use shall not be
>     construed as a distribution of this Package.
>
> See the file called "Artistic" in the Perl distribution for more
> information.
>
> If you don't want to use Perl, I know that Tcl used to be distributed
> under the Berkeley license.
>
> The license terms associated with Ruby may also be suitable for what
> you have in mind.  See: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt.
>
> Kevin
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