Re: The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP).

[Robert Uhl <address@hidden>]

Bruce Korb <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Yep, this occured to me... but which one should be plain "libguile"?
> 
> The one without new restrictions.

The one which causes the least trouble.  How many folks are using
libguile with proprietary software?  How many with free software?  I
daresay that former group is much smaller than the latter, but I could
be wrong.  Seems to me that the smaller group should be
inconvenienced, not the larger.

I'm still not certain why guile doesn't simply use the LGPL.  And I
still don't buy that dynamic linking produces a derived work; nor am I
convinced that static linking really does in any meaningful sense.

-- 
Robert Uhl <address@hidden>
Christos Voskrese iz mertvych
Smertiju smert' poprav
I suscim vo hrobich zi
Vot darovav!