From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: What if Guile changed its license to be LGPL? Date: 04 Jun 2002 21:36:31 +0200 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87elfmu98g.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023219604 10039 127.0.0.1 (4 Jun 2002 19:40:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:40:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17FKA0-0002bn-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jun 2002 21:40:04 +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 17FK92-000397-00; Tue, 04 Jun 2002 15:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway43.dip100.dokom.de ([195.138.43.100] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17FK6f-0002zc-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jun 2002 15:36:37 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 1143 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Jun 2002 19:36:31 -0000 Original-To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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:529 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:529 Guile currently has a license that consists of the GPL plus a special exception that gives blanket permission to link Guile with non-free software without putting restrictions on that non-free software. This is different from the Lesser GPL, which would require the non-free software to enable users of that software to modify Guile and get the non-free software to use the modified Guile. (This can be simply done by linking to libguile dynamically, say.) The special license of Guile means that we can't use other LGPLed software for it without putting the whole of Guile under the LGPL, effectively. For example, we want to GMP for our bignum implementation, and GMP is LGPL. So, here comes the hypothetical questions: If we would change the license of Guile to be the Lesser GPL, would you stop using it? (Please reply only when your answer is "yes".) What specifically would make you stop using it? (I.e., "LGPL would require me to distribute a link-kit, and I can't do that.") Thanks! _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user