Re: License issue with SRFI 5

2022-03-07 Thread Philip McGrath
Hi, On Monday, March 7, 2022 5:41:46 AM EST Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Philip McGrath skribis: > > To start with that, my proposed approach, which I hope satisfies the > > FSDG, is here: https://github.com/racket/srfi/pull/15 > > Good to know; I hope the next Racket release will include

Re: License issue with SRFI 5

2022-03-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Philip McGrath skribis: > To start with that, my proposed approach, which I hope satisfies the > FSDG, is here: https://github.com/racket/srfi/pull/15 Good to know; I hope the next Racket release will include it. Thank you, Ludo’.

Re: License issue with SRFI 5

2022-01-31 Thread Philip McGrath
Hi, On 10/29/21 10:44, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, This reply has taken a while because I did as you suggested and wrote some free replacement documentation (which involved paging back in some confusing details[1] and shaving several yaks), so now we have something concrete to talk about.

Re: License issue with SRFI 5

2021-10-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Philip McGrath skribis: > Since 2005, SRFIs have used the MIT/Expat license, and all but two > older SRFIs were relicensed: however, the SRFI editors were not able > to contact the author of SRFI 5, Andy Gaynor, so it remains under the > original SRFI license.[1] That license, modeled on

License issue with SRFI 5

2021-10-22 Thread Philip McGrath
Hi Guix, I was recently reminded of a thorny license issue with the SRFI 5 standard document, which is part of the main Racket distribution. People from Racket, the SRFI community, Debian, and Fedora have taken steps to help mitigate the problem: I want to make some further improvements