From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile-lib licensing (input requested) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:44:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87fxj5g0sk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233017099 30378 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2009 00:44:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:44:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 01:46:12 2009 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 1LRc5d-00050L-7M for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:46:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58816 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRc4K-0002a9-Vt for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:44:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRc4I-0002Zb-Er for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:44:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRc4G-0002ZB-Rg for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:44:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57169 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRc4G-0002Z8-Lp; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:44:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fnord.ir.bbn.com ([192.1.100.210]:53767) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRc4F-00079B-Kh; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:44:39 -0500 Original-Received: by fnord.ir.bbn.com (Postfix, from userid 10853) id E032853E7; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:44:38 -0500 (EST) X-Hashcash: 1:20:090127:guile-devel@gnu.org::6UW5cYUnwNIdmdNn:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000002Eb0 X-Hashcash: 1:20:090127:guile-user@gnu.org::YUc1AvXvm3q/rnFC:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000001iE1 X-Hashcash: 1:20:090127:ludo@gnu.org::6UW5cYUnwNIdmdNn:000009Frh In-Reply-To: <87fxj5g0sk.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22's?= message of "Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:28:11 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:8080 gmane.lisp.guile.user:7099 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=E8s) writes: > Hi! > > Andy Wingo writes: > >> We should probably have some kind of policy regarding licenses. Here are >> some options that I can think of: > > I'd say leave PD code PD, and move GPLv2+ files to GPLv3+, with clear > license headers. (My understanding is that there are currently only PD > and GPLv2+ files, right?) Top-level `COPYING' can be that of GPLv3+. > > Thank you for taking care of this! I was going to say LGPL, but I think a mix of PD and GPLv3+ is fine. I see the point of full GPL, but also think that it's good to respect the earlier intent of those who place things in PD or MIT-style license. It's not like there will be a horde of companies selling closed-source derivative copies of guile-lib with extra features... --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (NetBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkl+WPYACgkQ+vesoDJhHiUfVACcC8RhWKi1DrXrHA77KgKcyS8O eMcAn0e/Ao5mEnBhT31Mn5LtaPIsUiiD =4Oqs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--