From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: guile --version incorrectly prints GPL Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:46:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87bpa78dtt.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279306004 5325 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2010 18:46:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:46:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 16 20:46:42 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZpvl-0006XN-OV for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:46:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60441 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZpvl-0002S1-7J for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56082 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZpvc-0002R5-T9 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:46:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZpvb-0004yQ-Cz for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:46:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.82]:16407) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZpvb-0004yF-6v for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:46:31 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,215,1278280800"; d="scan'208";a="63926291" Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr (HELO nixey) ([80.67.176.83]) by mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 16 Jul 2010 20:46:29 +0200 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 28 Messidor an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:04:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:10670 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Andy, Andy Wingo writes: > wingo@unquote:~/src/guile$ meta/guile --version > lt-guile (GNU Guile) 1.9.11.159-33df2 > Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > > Written by the Guile developers. See: Guile 1.8.7 Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,= 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation Guile may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licenc= e; certain other uses are permitted as well. For details, see the file `COPYING', which is included in the Guile distribution. There is no warranty, to the extent permitted by law. > The license is wrong; I don=E2=80=99t think so. I think the intent was that the =E2=80=98guile= =E2=80=99 executable would be GPL and the rest LGPL. > Also the "Written by the Guile developers" line at the bottom looks > totally superfluous; would be better without the last two lines I > think. It=E2=80=99s not currently possible to remove them, see: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-11/msg00238.html A patch may be accepted though, so I can eventually look into it. > Also, what about the years? GCC, GDB, Emacs, and all GNU software that use =E2=80=98version-etc=E2=80= =99 (i.e., a lot) print only the last year, so I=E2=80=99m not worried. :-) (More generally, the Gnulib maintainers wouldn=E2=80=99t commit such a thing without carefully discussing the details with all the parties involved.) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkxAqQIACgkQd92V4upS7PQegQCfcKzIeTNV3wTdvR5UTqJqm6bQ BeEAmwQU0FCz4LhOD3Ln2mOaz6hhDP5P =7GHX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--