Re: guile-json, SRIFs and licenses

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

John Cowan <address@hidden> writes:

>> Whether or not a GPLed JSON library requires the Scheme implementation
>> > to be itself GPL depends on the implementation, but certainly a
>> > stand-alone *application* that uses it would have to be.
>>
>> Again, you are mistaken.  Check your facts, please.  See
>> <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatIsCompatible>.
…
> Thus if the JSON library is combined into the Scheme implementation as part
> of it, and that implementation is released, it must be released under the
> GPL.  If a stand-alone application (as opposed to a mere script that
> invokes the implementation) written in Scheme makes use of a GPLed library,
> it too (if publicly distributed) must be GPLed.  That's what I said

The precise statment would be: If you use a GPL’ed library, you must
license your own code under a GPL-compatible license and release the
application as a whole under the GPL.

I’m often in that bind at work myself. If I’d just like to use a lib,
but it’s GPL licensed. I hope that some day our product management/sales
will release under free licenses.

> As for clang, Apple funded it for commercial reasons, but there were
> efforts among BSD developers to write their own C compiler for years before
> that, though they came to nothing.

There is lots of history for GPL-criticism by BSD developers. I don’t
agree with their reasoning.

Best wishes,
Arne
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