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 > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail > doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss