It's more about being able to integrate the code into a Scheme implementation that is itself BSD vel sim.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 5:02 PM Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de> wrote:
If a number of free software licenses are allowed, I am very much in favor of allowing the GPL as well. I do not care about people wanting to integrate my code into non-free software.

Marc

Am Fr., 15. März 2019 um 21:45 Uhr schrieb John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org>:
I want to be able to reuse code from existing Schemes in the sample implementations of some up-and-coming SRFIs.  While the license of the SRFI itself is prescribed to be BSD-1, nothing is said about licensing sample implementations.

I that we should explicitly allow Apache 2.0, BSD-[123], and MIT licensed code.  I'm less sure about LGPL, which puts irritating restrictions on people who want to incorporate LGPLed cod into applications written in Scheme (they cannot be compiled with a monolithic compiler, for instance).  There is nothing intrinsically wrong with licensing a library under the GPL, but it's not going to be easy to integrate into Schemes that are not themselves GPL, so I think it should be disallowed.

Comments?



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