From: tomas@fabula.de
Subject: Re: What if Guile changed its license to be LGPL?
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:05:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020605070507.GA13622@www> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CFD375D.9080302@bothner.com>
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 02:55:41PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
[...]
> More importantly, if this complicates Guile and possibly lessens
> the "marketing power" of Guile, if may be in the FSF's interested
> to work out some kind of exception for Guile. They don't have to
> change the license for GMP in general. You can add some kind of
> exception where as long as an Guile application does not use the
> GMP C API directly, but only indirectly via Scheme code or other
> public Guile APIs, then the application is still covered by the
> Guile license, with exception.
IMHO: Please, don't. Complicated licenses also lessen the `marketing
power' of a product. I'd tend to Marius' approach of moving towards
LGPL and away from Guile exception, as long as there are no issues
with current users/uses. And if there are, I think it'd be worthwile
to try to resolve them.
[answering `yes' although Marius said only to answer in `no'
case, but I think the point of `license simplicity' is very
important: we have more and more small variations of open-ish
licenses these days]
Regards
-- tomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-05 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-04 19:36 What if Guile changed its license to be LGPL? Marius Vollmer
2002-06-04 20:11 ` Per Bothner
2002-06-04 21:28 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-04 21:55 ` Per Bothner
2002-06-05 7:05 ` tomas [this message]
2002-06-05 22:54 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-05 23:08 ` Per Bothner
2002-06-05 23:31 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-06 12:33 ` Panagiotis Vossos
2002-06-05 23:07 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-04 21:59 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-05 15:45 ` Neil Jerram
2002-06-05 22:45 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-06 2:36 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-06 2:52 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-05 21:57 ` Dale P. Smith
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