Re: guile licensing niglets

[Julian Graham]

Off-topic, but has there been any discussion of moving Guile to LGPLv3?


On Jan 20, 2008 4:13 PM, Neil Jerram <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've just received some queries about Guile's licensing from the FSF
> folks.  I think all of the following are just oversights, but if
> anyone else has any input on them, please follow up.
>
> > [..] under the impression that Guile had switched completely to
> > LGPL to 1.8, instead of GPL + exception.
> >
> > However, a few files in 1.8.3 (I admit I didn't check the dev sources)
> > still have the exception text.  My grep for special.exception turned up:
> > libguile.h
> > libguile/__scm.h
> > libguile/_scm.h
> > libguile/weaks.c
> > srfi/srfi-39.scm
> > doc/oldfmt.c
>
> I believe these are oversights, so would propose to update the license
> text in these files to LGPL.
>
> > Also, there is a COPYING file in many of the subdirectories.  This is
> > rather unusual.  One copy for the distribution would be sufficient.
>
> I propose to remove the non-top-level ones.
>
> > Also, the recommended name for the top-level COPYING.LIB is now
> > COPYING.LESSER.
>
> I propose to make this name change.
>
> Any comments?