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 Subject: Re: Upgrading to LGPLv3? Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:34:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878x9g80xn.fsf@chbouib.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184684347 21281 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2007 14:59:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:59:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 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 Jul 17 16:59:05 2007 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 1IAoVx-0006xx-Jr for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:59:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IAoVx-0002x0-3j for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:59:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IAoVu-0002wP-4v for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:58:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IAoVp-0002uC-G8 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:58:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IAoVp-0002u9-90 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:58:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IAoVl-0002no-GJ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fnord.ir.bbn.com ([192.1.100.210]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IAnCY-0000YF-H8; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:34:54 -0400 Original-Received: by fnord.ir.bbn.com (Postfix, from userid 10853) id B751A52EC; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:34:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Hashcash: 1:20:070717:ludo@gnu.org::VGOV3Saem6rZyL91:000000l6t X-Hashcash: 1:20:070717:guile-devel@gnu.org::VGOV3Saem6rZyL91:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000T2o In-Reply-To: <878x9g80xn.fsf@chbouib.org> ("Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E8s=22's?= message of "Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:59:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:6653 Archived-At: As you may already know, the main issue is that releasing `libguile' under LGPLv3 will preclude applications released under the GPLv2 *only* from using it [0]. [0] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility I didn't infer that from the link. A more important question is the continued ability to use guile in proprietary programs. Earlier guile was licensed under GPL or the "guile exception", in order to encourage people to use guile instead of tcl. In my view guile is in danger of becoming irrelevant (or already is irrelevant, or never really attained relevancy) in the broader software community. The greater degree of license freedom that the exception gave is IMHO still warranted. It's not like someone is going to put guile in an appliance and sell it, with the value being way higher because it's guile and not python, lua, tcl, or one of the other 12 scheme interpreters, thereby subverting the intent of the v3 changes. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel