From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guile-json, SRIFs and licenses
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 15:26:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnhziza3.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_RHSfFvY=kcrAXr6U_t659Hfzza_Pw=mNQwQDF=f3VMkA@mail.gmail.com>
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John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> writes:
>> Whether or not a GPLed JSON library requires the Scheme implementation
>> > to be itself GPL depends on the implementation, but certainly a
>> > stand-alone *application* that uses it would have to be.
>>
>> Again, you are mistaken. Check your facts, please. See
>> <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatIsCompatible>.
…
> Thus if the JSON library is combined into the Scheme implementation as part
> of it, and that implementation is released, it must be released under the
> GPL. If a stand-alone application (as opposed to a mere script that
> invokes the implementation) written in Scheme makes use of a GPLed library,
> it too (if publicly distributed) must be GPLed. That's what I said
The precise statment would be: If you use a GPL’ed library, you must
license your own code under a GPL-compatible license and release the
application as a whole under the GPL.
I’m often in that bind at work myself. If I’d just like to use a lib,
but it’s GPL licensed. I hope that some day our product management/sales
will release under free licenses.
> As for clang, Apple funded it for commercial reasons, but there were
> efforts among BSD developers to write their own C compiler for years before
> that, though they came to nothing.
There is lots of history for GPL-criticism by BSD developers. I don’t
agree with their reasoning.
Best wishes,
Arne
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[not found] <mailman.69.1572973210.27743.guile-user@gnu.org>
2019-11-06 0:02 ` guile-user Digest, Vol 204, Issue 2 Zelphir Kaltstahl
2019-11-06 0:28 ` John Cowan
2019-11-06 8:19 ` guile-json, SRIFs and licenses Zelphir Kaltstahl
2019-11-06 14:36 ` John Cowan
2019-11-06 14:56 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2019-11-06 15:38 ` John Cowan
2019-11-06 20:04 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-11-09 13:28 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-11-09 18:53 ` John Cowan
2019-11-10 14:26 ` Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2019-11-08 16:42 ` guile-user Digest, Vol 204, Issue 2 Mark H Weaver
2019-11-08 17:54 ` John Cowan
2019-11-08 18:18 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-11-08 18:52 ` John Cowan
2019-11-08 19:47 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-11-08 18:52 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2019-11-08 19:33 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-11-08 19:37 ` John Cowan
2019-11-08 19:33 ` John Cowan
2019-11-08 20:03 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-11-06 6:12 ` Greg Coladonato
2019-11-06 11:18 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
[not found] ` <CA+XASoWs-_SiG9+ubSvuWq-YRVQHdwhPTaJ0HdRR=nN4eMb-ng@mail.gmail.com>
2019-11-06 14:16 ` Greg Coladonato
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