From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: guile licensing niglets Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:13:39 +0000 Message-ID: <87r6gckxoc.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200863635 6754 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2008 21:13:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:13:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Berry To: Guile Development Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 20 22:14:14 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 1JGhUb-0000b5-0X for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:14:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGhUB-0001U8-IV for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:13:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGhU8-0001Sv-8s for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:13:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGhU7-0001SK-G1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGhU7-0001SF-BX for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGhU7-0000jh-3J for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-145-183-175.range86-145.btcentralplus.com [86.145.183.175]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B261F6AA8; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:13:40 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from laruns (unknown [192.168.0.10]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED25E3800A; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:13:39 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:6965 Archived-At: 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