From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP). Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:12:45 -0500 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87vg9oqf5b.fsf_-_@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <3CE3E5D8.A30C3197@pacbell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021569351 25580 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2002 17:15:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Marius Vollmer , guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org, Greg Troxel Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 178Or0-0006eT-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 19:15:50 +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 178OqR-00063j-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 13:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178Oo2-0005uB-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 13:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BDAFFCA; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:12:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2CCB1D4F; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:12:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Bruce Korb In-Reply-To: <3CE3E5D8.A30C3197@pacbell.net> (Bruce Korb's message of "Thu, 16 May 2002 10:01:12 -0700") Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) 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:439 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:439 Bruce Korb writes: >> 2) Use GMP, but have a configure switch that allows you to omit it, >> either with fallback non-GMP bignum support, or perhaps no >> bignums at all. > > If this bypasses the licensing issue, great. It should. >> 3) Ask the relevant parties whether or not they might be willing to >> extend the guile exception to GMP, i.e. add a special Guile >> clause to the GMP license. > > Murky. Probably legally okay, but businesses want to focus on > business and not wrestle with murky issues. Hmm. If the GMP license could be changed to have a Guile exception (identical to the one in the current Guile license), then I don't see how it's really any murkier on this front than the status quo. >> 4) Abandon GMP and continue to do things ourselves. > > Better than #1 or #3. Not for all purposes -- depends on what your goals are -- if we want a full numeric tower that's *fast* on multiple platforms, my impression is we may be better leaving that to numeric experts like the people working on GMP. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user