> Rejigging NCI to use the ffcall library > Nick Glencross wondered about rejigging NCI, the parrot Native Call > Interface to use the ffcall library. In fact he went so far as to offer > up a proof of concept implementation. Apparently the ffcall approach > makes it much easier to write callbacks in PIR/PASM. Leo thought it > sounded like a useful thing to do, but licensing issues (ffcall is under > the GPL) meant that Parrot might have to stick with the current NCI > interface. > > <http://xrl.us/ia4w>
As was stated in the thread, the author of ffcall has agreed in the past that he would be willing to release ffcall under LGPL for use with Perl6.
