[Gardeners] Project Proposal: Standardized Utility Library

[Aleksandr Simma]

On 6/5/06, Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 5, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Ian Eslick wrote:
>
> > Peter, thanks for the permission to include monkeylib and twas!  I'll
> > start there after I've talked to the cl-utilities owner to see if he
> > wants in (or out) of the project.  Any concerns or preference on a
> > license?  (MIT vs. LLGPL?)  Any advice on handling copyright and
> > author
> > attribution?
>
> My stuff is licensed BSD/MIT. That seems best for Lisp libraries that
> you want to be as widely usable as possible. GPL is better if you're
> main goal is the liberation of software. LGPL just seems like a mess
> and it's not clear that LLGPL fixes it--just using BSD/MIT seems much
> more straightforward.
>
> -Peter
>
>
+1 on the project; I think it's a great idea.  I think I will be able to
help out with the project.  However, the real trick is getting adoption and
use by the public; while I think that including it in Lispbox will make a
lot of newbees use it and thus, give the project a good boost, it would be
great if we could somehow get the prolific package contributors to take
advantage of this project.

So if you already have a decent amount of experience in Lisp and the
resulting accumilated set of macros and helper functions, what would it take
for you to start using the common library instead of your own homebrewed
solutions?

As for the license issue, BSD is the best in my book for this kind of a
project.

Alex
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