Off-topic, but has there been any discussion of moving Guile to LGPLv3?
On Jan 20, 2008 4:13 PM, Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?