Licensing issues

[TeMPOraL]

The NOTES file admits to lifting some code from OpenMCL, which is LLGPL. Doesn't that conflict with the stated MIT license of Babel?

There is concern among some Lisp users, that since Babel is pulled in by CFFI, this licensing situation creates a problem for distributing application binaries that use foreign dependencies. See this thread for context.

Since NOTES file marks this as an open issue, maybe it's possible to eventually close it? As I understand, OpenMCL today is CCL, so maybe Clozure Associates can help rectify the legal uncertainty here?

[luismbo]

This is indeed unfortunate. I did talk about this to one of the Clozure guys at ECLM 2009 and he said it was fine. But I understand this is not very useful in terms of licensing.

[Symbolics]

OpenMCL, aka Clozure has an Apache license.