From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Bothner Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: What if Guile changed its license to be LGPL? Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 16:08:51 -0700 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3CFE9A03.2000006@bothner.com> References: <87elfmu98g.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <3CFD1EDF.8050403@bothner.com> <873cw2u417.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <3CFD375D.9080302@bothner.com> <87hekhgwvo.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023318932 3663 127.0.0.1 (5 Jun 2002 23:15:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 23:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Fk00-0000wh-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 01:15:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Fjtn-0005Nr-00; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 19:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from adsl-216-102-199-253.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([216.102.199.253] helo=bothner.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Fjra-0005HF-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 19:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: from bothner.com (eureka.bothner.com [192.168.1.9]) by bothner.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g55NAdq32072; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:10:39 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Marius Vollmer X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by bothner.com id g55NAdq32072 Errors-To: guile-user-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:548 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:548 Marius Vollmer wrote: >>Somebody wrote such a library. Some years ago there were problems >>with some use of GMP for encryption. I don't remember the details, >>but part of the problem was that since they were linking explicitly >>against the GMP API, the FSF argued they were effectivly linking >>with the GMP, even if they were separate. That was resolved by >>somebody writing an API-compatible very of GMP. >=20 > Yes, I thought I remembered something like that but couldn't > immediately find more details. If such a library exists, we are > settled and can use GMP exclusively, no? Anyone wanting to invoke the > exception in Guile's license can use the unrestricted substitute-GMP, > right? However, the alternative implementation is probably not something the FSF wants to promote or even mention. Again, I suggest you check with RMS and Torbj=F6rn to see what their positions are on the issue. > Do you know more about this library? Where could I find it? I don't remember. I'm sure Torbj=F6rn (tege@swox.com) remembers. --=20 --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://www.bothner.com/per/ _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user