Suminda,

I suspect most of us are already aware of these general issues.

I believe Robby was interested in hearing about how (a subset of) these
issues affect *you* personally, your company, etc. I'm certainly interested.

Vincent




On Sat, 05 Nov 2016 05:05:14 +0100,
Suminda Dharmasena wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The issues:
> 
> * GPL family of licenses and left licenses is not whitelisted in certain
>   organisations
> * If you make any changes add internal functionality, even if it not
>   relevant or has no chance of getting accepted into upstream, you
>   cannot keep it proprietary when distributing
> * In libraries you cannot make changes or hacks to the interface for
>   workarounds which may not be relevant to upstream since this might to
>   accommodate better fit with proprietary API 
> * If some organisation is not using Racket because of the license, then
>   this will increase adaptation hence the whole ecosystem
> * Since it is Homoiconic and has metaprogramming, when code is generated
>   and then optimised either in source or binary, it is not clear whether
>   what license apply. You may not have consistent interface due to
>   inlining and other optimisation and mixing of code from libraries in
>   meta programming
> 
> S
> 
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