From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Korb Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP). Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 11:54:44 -0700 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87vg9oqf5b.fsf_-_@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <877klouny2.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1022612258 12657 127.0.0.1 (28 May 2002 18:57:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rob Browning , 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 17CmA5-0003I2-00 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 20:57:37 +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 17Cm9d-0008Ic-00; Tue, 28 May 2002 14:57:09 -0400 Original-Received: from bay-bridge.veritas.com ([143.127.3.10] helo=svldns02.veritas.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Cm7h-0008Dl-00; Tue, 28 May 2002 14:55:10 -0400 Original-Received: from megami.veritas.com (south.veritas.com [10.182.128.167]) by svldns02.veritas.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g4SIlic20916; Tue, 28 May 2002 11:47:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from pacbell.net (ellen.veritas.com[10.180.88.137]) by megami.veritas.com (2121 bytes) via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:smart_host/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 11:54:49 -0700 (PDT) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #15 built 2001-Aug-30) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: Marius Vollmer 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:500 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:500 Marius Vollmer wrote: > > 2) Use GMP, but have a configure switch... > > I think this is acceptable. A not-GMP-using libguile would be > technically inferior to the default libguile, but that can only be > expected. If you want the good stuff, agree to our terms. Then you cannot complain if a proprietary product uses a GMP-using libguile. The problem is that the person installing libguile is not necessarily the installer of the proprietary produce. e.g., SuSE distributes Linux with a pre-packaged libguile. The proprietary product installation should do what? Check for GMP-enablement in libguile and choke, or just install? > If it is not too much hassle, Methinks it is. I also doubt any of my "clients" use big nums, but I put no constraints on their Scheme code, either. > What I'm trying to say is that we should not make > ourselves a lot of work to keep the fall back be efficient. Fallback isn't the issue. You're talking about a new library with new usage restrictions. Think: new name, too. > > 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. > > That would be a solution, It would preclude needing to rename. _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user