Re: [chicken-users] silex GPL-2 licensed?

[John Cowan]

minh thu scripsit:

> >  That's right.  Of course, if you use a GPLed egg, you have to distribute
> >  Scheme source for your whole app.  C source is obfuscated and doesn't
> >  count for GPL purposes.
> 
> It seems to me that you both say the opposite. I understand the
> exemple above of distributing averything in C form includes C code
> from any egg (under any license, not just BSD).

Not from just any egg.  If the egg is compile-time-only, there is no
problem.  But if a GPLed egg provides runtime code to the final program,
such as the mpi or readline eggs, then it is in violation of the GPL to
distribute the C version only.

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