Frank Buss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >[snipped]
Can I use the above snipped text in some wxCL documentation? > > But I wonder if I'm allowed to sell closed-sourced programs with CLISP. IANAL. If your lisp code runs on several common-lisp implementations, then you can distribute fasl files compiled by clisp under your own license. >The > CLISP FAQ says, that everything which is dynamicly loaded by CLISP must be > GPL, is this a problem with wxWidgets, which has another licence? You can distribute wxWidgets _binaries_ under whatever license you want. >And if > I'm developing some application specific DLLs, I'm is it possible not to > publish the source code of these DLLs? > Yes, very much. Matlab can be dynamically loaded into CLISP, but it is not GPL. You can distribute your dll[1] under whatever license you want. > But perhaps it is even easier, because the FAQ says it is GPL because of > the GNU readline. Is it not GPL, if I compile it without readline (which > should be possible, if it is used for the interactive prompt, only) ? No way. Bruno Haible was initially asked to make clisp GPL because of readline. He could have removed readline and made it non-GPL. But he didn't want to, and as Pascal mentioned in comp.lang.lisp, most people hardly use readline (slime doesn't require it), so readline is not important, rather I think clisp developers and copyright holders like GNU philosophy, and hence they want clisp to continue to be GPL. Its their choice and whatever they want we should respect it, and be thankful to them for providing a free lisp implementation. No matter how you change/modify or compile clisp, the resultant code should be GPL. [1]Unless off course your dll depends upon some code which has its own license requirements. -- Surendra Singhi http://www.public.asu.edu/~sksinghi/index.html ,---- | Great wits are sure to madness near allied, | And thin partitions do their bounds divide. | | (John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1681) `---- _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
