Re: guile-json, SRIFs and licenses

[John Cowan]

The MIT license is required for all SRFIs, both texts and implementations:
the exact wording appears at the end of every SRFI, and is adjusted over
time as the MIT license changes (very slightly).  I wasn't there at the
time, but it was probably adopted because MIT, like BSD, is a universal
donor: it can be incorporated into software that is preponderantly under
any other license.  Chicken, for instance, is under the BSD license, but
you can compile and distribute a Chicken program under any license — unless
it incorporates one of the 31 GPLed eggs.

What looks like a commons from inside the GNUverse looks more like a walled
garden to the rest of FLOSS.



On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 3:19 AM Zelphir Kaltstahl <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> What is the requirement in terms of licenses for SRFI implementations?
>
> I personally think that MIT is a terrible license (one of the I don't
> care licenses) as it does not make sure, that modifications flow back to
> the community. Do SRFIs require MIT license? And if so, why?
>
> ~ Zelphir
>
> On 11/6/19 1:28 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> > +1.  If only it weren't GPL3, which makes it ineligible to be a SRFI
> > implementation....
> >
> > Is there any chance of dual-licensing it under MIT?
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 7:03 PM Zelphir Kaltstahl <
> address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> This is great! A solid JSON parsing and outputting library is important
> >> for a programming language these days! Thanks for your work!
> >>
> >> On 11/5/19 6:00 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> >>> Message: 1
> >>> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 22:28:12 -0800
> >>> From: Aleix Conchillo Flaqué <address@hidden>
> >>> To: guile-user <address@hidden>
> >>> Subject: [ANN] guile-json 3.3.0 released
> >>> Message-ID:
> >>>       <
> >> address@hidden>
> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm pleased to announce guile-json 3.3.0. This new version comes with a
> >> few
> >>> improvements: guile-json will now throw an exception if the native
> scheme
> >>> value used to build a JSON document is invalid (this is done before
> >>> printing any JSON). Also, an additional key argument #:validate can be
> >>> given to ignore the validation in the case performance is important and
> >> the
> >>> data is known to be valid. Empty JSON array slots are also considered
> >>> invalid, before they were generating an invalid scheme representation.
> A
> >>> few more details can be found on the NEWS file.
> >>>
> >>> https://github.com/aconchillo/guile-json
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>>
> >>> Aleix
> >>
>
>