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From: Julian Fondren <ayrnieu@gmail.com>
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Julian Fondren <ayrnieu@gmail.com> writes:
> The only stunner is that it's all GPL'd.  Not even LGPL'd.  Not MIT or
> BSD.  Not 'Artistic'; not GPL with an escape clause.  It's pure 100%
> infectious GPL.  But for that I'd have no problem using FFL.

I contacted the author about the license, and received this reply:

  Hello,

  Actually, more people have suggested the move to the LGPL, so with the
  next version of library the license will be changed to LGPL.

  Regards, Dick


So, that's that.