From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Julian Graham" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: guile licensing niglets Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:18:52 -0500 Message-ID: <2bc5f8210801201318v10825f24k3c3246123450d52b@mail.gmail.com> References: <87r6gckxoc.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200863951 7873 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2008 21:19:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:19:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development , Karl Berry To: "Neil Jerram" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 20 22:19:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JGhZg-00025G-0B for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:19:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGhZG-0003Bm-BZ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:19:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGhZD-0003B2-Sy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:18:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGhZ9-0003A4-8p for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:18:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGhZ9-0003A1-3P for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:18:55 -0500 Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGhZ8-00023E-Qv for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:18:55 -0500 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so189698nfh.26 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:18:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=KOQQvdt6fhM7YXOLcUBRrjfYPc5p0Q4P4YeIHR8McOY=; b=ofT/Js6LSpacCo4lbhLzbns1hmRK01A+KmBLHkwvu/maGSfCeusIAdB+C1WSFt6FaQNeeCI2hkOnzvgmsypHOU8SmCusM2aOARILMhUHC0mkhADU0N0CsUoiX1U+P+0HY0HWw9bp0wIqTG7JYCVmZHHMdmMM/MGVMao/unOhABc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WuYSyN7gmhILXs5tjDWu5bwY94uU9S+n80BGuDu1Ve3tc4qmnlbmGG8wwwG+hJd0xblcM8I/RioxDcbK6IgclTVWVCXcx3RLm+qUgEvRqDZqDzAlV+7KKiw/eomGXuOFMy5mD2ala5JQv4wvl7C5vAJ6Uo/MRB/FeDSaH2KVB3A= Original-Received: by 10.82.184.2 with SMTP id h2mr10910734buf.22.1200863932712; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:18:52 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.82.176.13 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:18:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87r6gckxoc.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6966 Archived-At: Off-topic, but has there been any discussion of moving Guile to LGPLv3? On Jan 20, 2008 4:13 PM, Neil Jerram wrote: > I've just received some queries about Guile's licensing from the FSF > folks. I think all of the following are just oversights, but if > anyone else has any input on them, please follow up. > > > [..] under the impression that Guile had switched completely to > > LGPL to 1.8, instead of GPL + exception. > > > > However, a few files in 1.8.3 (I admit I didn't check the dev sources) > > still have the exception text. My grep for special.exception turned up: > > libguile.h > > libguile/__scm.h > > libguile/_scm.h > > libguile/weaks.c > > srfi/srfi-39.scm > > doc/oldfmt.c > > I believe these are oversights, so would propose to update the license > text in these files to LGPL. > > > Also, there is a COPYING file in many of the subdirectories. This is > > rather unusual. One copy for the distribution would be sufficient. > > I propose to remove the non-top-level ones. > > > Also, the recommended name for the top-level COPYING.LIB is now > > COPYING.LESSER. > > I propose to make this name change. > > Any comments?