Re: Upgrading to LGPLv3?

[Greg Troxel]

  As you may already know, the main issue is that releasing `libguile'
  under LGPLv3 will preclude applications released under the GPLv2
  *only* from using it [0].

  [0] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility

I didn't infer that from the link.

A more important question is the continued ability to use guile in
proprietary programs.

Earlier guile was licensed under GPL or the "guile exception", in order
to encourage people to use guile instead of tcl.

In my view guile is in danger of becoming irrelevant (or already is
irrelevant, or never really attained relevancy) in the broader software
community.

The greater degree of license freedom that the exception gave is IMHO
still warranted.  It's not like someone is going to put guile in an
appliance and sell it, with the value being way higher because it's
guile and not python, lua, tcl, or one of the other 12 scheme
interpreters, thereby subverting the intent of the v3 changes.