From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Neil Jerram" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Guile licensing and GPL v2-only applications? Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:06:49 +0000 Message-ID: <49dd78620901121306u1c2ffc8fl6836869e29809e36@mail.gmail.com> References: <49dd78620812121354w22319e26xa05f88845fafe95f@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231794490 23779 80.91.229.12 (12 Jan 2009 21:08:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:08:10 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user , guile-devel Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 12 22:09:22 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 1LMU1D-0000cv-Bb for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:08:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMTzw-0004Yg-Rk for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:07:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMTzo-0004Sl-Hh for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:06:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMTzn-0004Qx-Tf for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:06:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55313 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMTzn-0004Qk-L2; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:06:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:17583) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LMTzn-000780-3Y; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:06:51 -0500 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so4265772fgb.30 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:06:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=w40hVWG4MCzwwNSYQ8+JqFlmtPHL8BQxT+IkNNt1pYQ=; b=LzHiEHkD9Iw3MH9+kM8B5qP6alGFWhYKQVPnKojCzbCq0UB3pQlaawDCzF3YN6sGwU xnhx1/CRx1GK6voCXcQ6XztQS19d0nmJ1lzc+fVzcVVK5Bbf4O47q9n7UKCVAfEMZpGD 489TmybPWngskS0+QOkYWfIHZTd52F35dN/9U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=AHKNYVYTPAd2VqhRhS7nGnk+IGaFw3vBWwI1VZ6U5FC8Kc8fFbJcqQVG7Z04sumE+9 M2hmdzyPxGouBu2esm195PYF1Tnyg2rACrHn7H3ddq7VSUyR7pns1EUFLftlmeyPlPph IizaCUhaTUH2kJ0PZVNwFTedXLq97JxgmL2yE= Original-Received: by 10.86.65.9 with SMTP id n9mr17154254fga.61.1231794410038; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:06:50 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.86.74.2 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:06:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <49dd78620812121354w22319e26xa05f88845fafe95f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:7995 gmane.lisp.guile.user:7055 Archived-At: Hi Guilers, We recently announced (below) that we were looking at changing Guile's license to LGPLv3+, and asked if anyone knew of any GPLv2-only applications that this would cause a problem for. There were no responses; therefore the plan as of now is that Guile v2 (i.e. the next major release, following the 1.8.x series) will be LGPLv3+. Regards, Neil 2008/12/12 Neil Jerram : > As Guile maintainers, Ludovic and I have been asked to look at > changing Guile's license to LGPLv3. Currently it is LGPLv2.1. If we > did this, it would be for the next stable release series (1.10.x, or > possibly 2.0.x) and onwards, not for any further 1.8.x releases. > > Our understanding is that this is uncontroversial, except if there are > any GPL v2-only applications using Guile. Can you therefore let us > know if you are working on any GPL v2-only applications, or are aware > of any? > > Thanks, > Neil >