From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Guile Development <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
Subject: guile licensing niglets
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:13:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6gckxoc.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
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?
Regards,
Neil
next reply other threads:[~2008-01-20 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 21:13 Neil Jerram [this message]
2008-01-20 21:18 ` guile licensing niglets Julian Graham
2008-01-20 21:40 ` Karl Berry
2008-01-20 22:08 ` Neil Jerram
2008-01-21 23:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-01-21 23:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-01-22 21:50 ` Neil Jerram
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