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: Re: What if Guile changed its license to be LGPL? Date: 06 Jun 2002 00:54:03 +0200 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87hekhgwvo.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <87elfmu98g.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <3CFD1EDF.8050403@bothner.com> <873cw2u417.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <3CFD375D.9080302@bothner.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023318571 3040 127.0.0.1 (5 Jun 2002 23:09:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 23:09:31 +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 17FjuB-0000mo-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 01:09:28 +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 17FjiC-0004tO-00; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 18:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway42.dip7.dokom.de ([195.138.42.7] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17FjfL-0004nQ-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 18:54:08 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 949 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Jun 2002 22:54:03 -0000 Original-To: Per Bothner In-Reply-To: <3CFD375D.9080302@bothner.com> Original-Lines: 29 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:546 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:546 Per Bothner writes: [ extending the license exception of Guile to GMP ] > Stallman (and Torbjörn) may be favorably inclined to such as > exception; as Guile maintainer I think you should at least bring up > the issue with RMS. Yes, I will. I'll wait a bit to see whether any other arguments surface in favor of weakening the license of GMP. > > What about creating a library that is reasonably compatible to GMP but > > is simple minded and comes with a very unrestrictive license. It's > > sole purpose would be to make use of the permissive license of > > libguile (and of libgcj, if I understand your intention right). > > 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. 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? Do you know more about this library? Where could I find it? _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user