From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
To: Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ttn-pers-scheme & ttn-do
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 20:12:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abieqmlc.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wsn33u9j.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> (Sebastian Tennant's message of "Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:36:24 +0300")
() Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
() Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:36:24 +0300
> The special exception can be seen in some Guile
> releases in the top-level README:
>
> | The exception is that, if you link the GUILE library with
> | other files to produce an executable, this does not by
> | itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by the
> | GNU General Public License. Your use of that executable is
> | in no way restricted on account of linking the GUILE
> | library code into it.
Presumably this is/was to encourage use of Guile
across the board (i.e., in non-free environments too)?
Yes, i believe so.
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I can't say exactly
_why_ it's nice to know how the situation came about, but it
is, nevertheless.
You're welcome. It can be both pleasant and unpleasant to
re-re-re-reverbrate. That's the nature of troughs and crests.
thi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-25 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-18 20:20 ttn-pers-scheme & ttn-do Sebastian Tennant
2008-03-19 7:35 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-03-19 11:08 ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-04-03 11:28 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-04-03 11:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-04-12 16:36 ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-05-25 18:12 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
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