From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4645ABC3F for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:13:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i9PIDa8a023981 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:13:36 +0200 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA31414 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:13:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from juliet.albedo.net (juliet.albedo.net [206.51.22.2]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i9PIDYwB023973 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:13:35 +0200 Received: from [206.51.22.218] (ppp218.albedo.net [206.51.22.218]) (authenticated bits=0) by juliet.albedo.net (8.12.11/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i9PIDOVu013737; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:13:25 -0400 Message-ID: <417D41A1.4080603@albedo.net> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:10:41 -0400 From: Hartmann Schaffer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040926) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Cc: David Brown , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Announce: Schoca-0.2.3 released References: <1098642597.3075.32.camel@pelican.wigram> <20041025025832.GA1582@old.davidb.org> <20041025.123834.26988978.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <20041025050127.GA3599@old.davidb.org> <417CB289.1010700@exomi.com> In-Reply-To: <417CB289.1010700@exomi.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80rc3/507/Mon Sep 27 06:53:21 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80c on juliet.albedo.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 417D4250.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 417D424E.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 wrote:01 gpl:01 gpl:01 rms:01 minor:01 readline:01 iirc:01 readline:01 ...:98 essentially:01 gnu:03 linking:03 dynamic:03 library:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > While you're essentially correct, the above could also be interpreted > to mean that you can get around the GPL by having the end-user link > GPL-incompatible software against a GPL component. According to RMS, > this is not acceptable, even for a minor, optional component (he > demanded that CLISP change its licensing due to the optional ability > to link against GNU readline; the author changed to GPL). iirc (haible had the history on one of his websites, it probably is still there, but i don't remember the URL) you could chose whether to include readline when you built clisp (from sources). so he was distributing something that, based on build options was linked with a gpled library. it had nothing to do with dynamic linking > > ... hs