From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP). Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:22:08 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <877km4qa7z.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87ptzxp8le.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87vg9oqf5b.fsf_-_@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <20020516132133.A24385@gas-o> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021569878 26805 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2002 17:24:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org, Greg Troxel Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 178OzV-0006yE-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 19:24:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178Oz1-0007Cv-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 13:24:07 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178Ox9-0006ph-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 13:22:11 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459F7FCA; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:22:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D08B9D4F; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:22:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <20020516132133.A24385@gas-o> ("Jeff Read"'s message of "Thu, 16 May 2002 13:21:33 -0400") Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:629 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:629 "Jeff Read" writes: > I rather like the notion of Guile as "SIOD on steroids". Basically a > relatively lightweight, self-contained, but very powerful and > RnRS-compliant Scheme with strengths in extension and > integration. For this purpose, anyway, options 2 and 4 are > best. Option 3 is a possibility if we bundle in GMP with Guile. Option 3 could be possible even if we don't bundle. It kinda depends on how RMS, the GMP people, etc. feel about the issue. I suspect there may not be any serious technical reasons preventing a Guile exception from being added to the mainstream GMP license, but that doesn't mean they'd think it was a good idea :> > Right now I'm compiling Guile out-of-the-box (out-of-the-tarball?) > on a stock OpenBSD system, which doesn't come all tricked out like a > lot of popular GNU/Linux distros do. I'd like to continue to be able > to do this, and not sweat too much about libraries that Guile > depends on for its very existence. So in your opinion, would requiring GMP, even if the licensing issues were worked out be too big a hassle? -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel