From: "Jeff Read" <bitwize@snet.net>
Cc: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>,
guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org,
Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
Subject: Re: The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP).
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 13:21:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac0pgd$ovu$2@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vg9oqf5b.fsf_-_@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>; from rlb@defaultvalue.org on Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:35:44AM -0500
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:35:44AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> If the analysis is correct, then it seems like we have a few choices:
>
> 1) Use (and require) GMP anyway and expect people to accomodate the
> licensing changes.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 4) Abandon GMP and continue to do things ourselves.
>
> Thoughts?
I don't think option 1 is a good idea, both from a licensing standpoint (because changing licenses, especially from less restrictive ones to more restrictive ones, is tricky) and from a more pragmatic standpoint concerning Guile's deployment.
I rather like the notion of Guile as "SIOD on steroids". Basically a relatively lightweight, self-contained, but very powerful and RnRS-compliant Scheme with strengths in extension and integration. For this purpose, anyway, options 2 and 4 are best. Option 3 is a possibility if we bundle in GMP with Guile.
Right now I'm compiling Guile out-of-the-box (out-of-the-tarball?) on a stock OpenBSD system, which doesn't come all tricked out like a lot of popular GNU/Linux distros do. I'd like to continue to be able to do this, and not sweat too much about libraries that Guile depends on for its very existence.
--
Jeffrey T. Read
"I fight not for me but the blind babe Justice!" --Galford
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[not found] <87ptzxp8le.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
2002-05-16 15:35 ` The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP) Rob Browning
[not found] ` <87vg9oqf5b.fsf_-_@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>
2002-05-16 16:44 ` Greg Troxel
2002-05-16 17:01 ` Bruce Korb
[not found] ` <3CE3E5D8.A30C3197@pacbell.net>
2002-05-16 17:12 ` Rob Browning
[not found] ` <87elgcqanm.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>
2002-05-21 19:55 ` Carl R. Witty
[not found] ` <v4j661hi8ce.fsf@bogomips.newtonlabs.com>
2002-05-21 23:44 ` Rob Browning
2002-05-16 17:21 ` Jeff Read [this message]
[not found] ` <20020516132133.A24385@gas-o>
2002-05-16 17:22 ` Rob Browning
[not found] ` <877km4qa7z.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>
2002-05-16 17:42 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-05-16 20:40 ` Jeff Read
[not found] ` <20020516164045.C24385@gas-o>
2002-05-16 23:17 ` Rob Browning
[not found] ` <874rh7n0ng.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>
2002-05-16 23:35 ` Jeff Read
[not found] ` <20020516193535.A26480@gas-o>
2002-05-16 23:38 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-05-17 1:33 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-17 0:02 ` Rob Browning
2002-05-28 18:56 ` Marius Vollmer
[not found] ` <rmi8z6kavqi.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
2002-05-17 11:38 ` Bill Schottstaedt
2002-05-28 18:28 ` Marius Vollmer
[not found] ` <877klouny2.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
2002-05-28 18:54 ` Bruce Korb
2002-05-28 18:58 ` Bill Gribble
2002-06-03 13:33 ` Greg Troxel
2002-06-03 22:25 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-04 11:22 ` Greg Troxel
2002-06-04 19:12 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 19:02 ` Rob Browning
[not found] ` <3CF3D274.978637CD@pacbell.net>
2002-05-28 19:23 ` Marius Vollmer
[not found] ` <87sn4ct6tj.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
2002-05-28 19:39 ` Bruce Korb
[not found] ` <3CF3DCDD.D0CB1662@pacbell.net>
2002-05-28 19:54 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 19:54 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
[not found] ` <87d6vgt5dx.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
2002-05-28 20:16 ` Bruce Korb
[not found] ` <3CF3E5A3.623870F7@pacbell.net>
2002-06-01 16:01 ` Marius Vollmer
[not found] ` <877klj0yzu.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
2002-06-01 18:06 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-06-03 22:40 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-04 14:38 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
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