Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken]

[Peter Keller]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 02:23:13PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Peter Keller <address@hidden> writes:
> > You make a mistake, it is LGPL'ed, not GPL'ed. That means you can link with
> > it and the program you link with does not have to become GPL'ed.
> 
> Yes, but if the goal (and I have no idea of Felix's goal) is to
> distribute a system that is purely BSD licensed, well, GMP isn't, and
> the OpenSSL bignum library (which has all sorts of neat things in it)
> is. That means you could distribute compiled applications with no "you
> must give us the sources" bits at all. Again, though, I have no idea
> of Felix's goals.

Yeah, I don't know what felix wants either. What I do know, is it is ok
if I give my code out as LGPL here and it doesn't affect people using
my libraries. To me, that is satisfactory. I *want* people to have the
source to the stuff I give out. Also, under linux, you link against
glibc right? Same problem but noone seems to care there. :)

-pete