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Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> writes:

> So I'd really hate to see the exception abandoned - it would
> essentially mean the end of guile use in my workplace, or at least a
> great diminishment.

What would prohibit you from using Guile if it would be licensed under
the Lesser GPL?  (I guess it might be section 6 of the LGPL that
requires you to enable all recipients of your "work that uses the
library" to replace libguile with a suitably modified version of
libguile.)

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