What: TIL
 Where: http://til.sf.net/
 Description: Tcl ICE Library is a set of Tcl-only libraries and utilities
        of general nature.  It facilitates development, deployment and
        surveillance of tcl distributed apps, suppresses discrepancies between
        Unix and windows with regards to administration and deployment,
        and demonstrates network-aware simple component design.
        Currently at version 1.0 .
 Updated: 08/2005
 Contact: See web site

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[schlenk] Some parts of it look really useful. 

[AK] And would have looked very good in [Tcllib]. But no submissions were made. [[ [SEH] Perhaps the TCT ought to consider a policy of inviting submissions rather than just waiting for a possibly clueless developer to figure out that the option to contribute to Tcllib is available and then how to do it.]]

[LV] This would not be the first time someone with a related library contributed it to Tcllib.  However, are the licenses compatible?

[AK] TIL uses ''Academic Free License v2.1''. And I have no idea if that is compatible with BSD or not. Or even if it is recognized as a proper OSS license.

[schlenk] As far as i have read the license I'm not sure what it really means, its BSD with an advertising clause, but there is one clause in the license which looks GPL'ish..., but only for original work not for derived works..., kind of strange, but as always INAL. Good reading about it here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/osfreesoft/book/ch02.pdf

[Lars H]: The "Licensing howto" at [http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/Licensing%2DHOWTO.html] describes AFL as the modern (2002) equivalent of BSD (in terms of aims, not necessarily in terms of legal interpretation). Since the guy who wrote it is president of the OSI, it at least seems safe to conclude that it is an opensource license. The book linked to by [schlenk] above does however point out some odd passages in the AFL... Perhaps it is necessary to start comparing versions of that license.

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