From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Frazier Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Dumb Licensing Questions Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:41:01 -0500 Message-ID: <1481769661.14047.38.camel@members.fsf.org> Reply-To: wes.frazier@members.fsf.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Le77LBpP4CW+vc0aNSdx" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481769700 19194 195.159.176.226 (15 Dec 2016 02:41:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 02:41:40 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 15 03:41:36 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cHLzB-0003MG-VM for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 03:41:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51851 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHLzD-0002p9-8c for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:41:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42822) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHLyr-0002mF-S9 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:41:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHLyn-0007OF-VO for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:41:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.142]:38224) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHLyn-0007Nq-J4 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:41:09 -0500 Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 3tfHkT4xNfzypD for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 03:41:04 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.9-1+b1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.67.36.142 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:13023 Archived-At: --=-Le77LBpP4CW+vc0aNSdx Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have been poking around with guile and trying to learn scheme. However I have a licensing question and please forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere, ive tried searching quite a bit, and checked the GPL Faq and couldn't find it. I've noticed that several language bindings listed under libraries on the website such as guile-sdl and guile-ncurses are licensed under the GPL. And ive looked quite closely at guile-sdl and can't seem to find a linking exception. Ive mostly stuck to compiled languages until now. However, I know that if I were writing compiled code, using a GPLed library with no linking exception, my resulting code would have to be GPLed as well. This is why many libraries are under the LGPL instead (including libsdl proper.) Is this the case for interpreted languages? including scheme code interpreted via guile? Is code using guile-sdl thus forced to be under the GPL? If not why are so many other guile libraries released LGPL? And if so why was guile-sdl licensed GPL when it's upstream library was LGPL? Was this intentional? - Wes --=-Le77LBpP4CW+vc0aNSdx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQGcBAABCAAGBQJYUgK+AAoJEOLVsZS7OzMM0r4MAIQ5YbfEmXSQ+xHXA3EyImrQ F7gN0VMEuhGVipEqT97yflrKUG6IPzmgf/U8wHTMpGP4nqxpLEf4+xIrWiYAn6Tk kIKKkzjKlOdWgk2Gdwp5X5MFNki35698taw8RU8yeIrcCVwBYENixjKldx1LK7iP n2bjQ9hiOFqTQZkF+RLChe+whpijDuInaM0WylmghLBqhX2uQzyeDTQhMyeEJxno faukb7VdjHjJM4dm8xjZKI2KmHeBdTddszaXt5GzJQYEbb0shEA8AnHGU6jhc82M mZzjN1Uhtkpf0qTuM+2IgbyPKzctYuQ/udruF9TvJC2wSy+OToKlybts0/60ulwt qR3GsA0yoTmIB36ga97OmCZf+CJJlP/dcy38c4IPhwqxi46VhfChVBEmzn1hEfVR 7KdNt6nhatoCKt6uORfvvvqV9+FT6zSfMfYiyKN8OfhJXZl6MnP3dWiWEJZwYeSk PD2tR04ch1Dg1yQfiphs3ipsJjUySXmEJPgBBu21OA== =/fzw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Le77LBpP4CW+vc0aNSdx--