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

[John Cowan]

Leonardo Valeri Manera quotavit:

> >         Obviously, you have the non-licensed version in hand because,
> >  otherwise, you would have seen the license.

Right.  So there's no question of our our egg being a GPLed version.
Unless, indeed, someone has been so unscrupulous as to take a modified
GPLed version and remove the license -- but if so, we are not responsible,
only the license mutilator is responsible.

> >         If it were just for me, you can do whatever you want with
> >  SILex.  However, I don't know if you would still have problems despite
> >  what I just wrote.
> >
> >         That being said, I'm glad to see that SILex is used that much
> >  and helps numerous people.

I would take these two paragraphs of the letter (or the whole letter)
and add it to the egg in a file called "LICENSE" and leave the license
category as "Other".  That way, various people, groups, and companies
can make their own decisions about what they can do with this license.
For myself, I'd accept it as a permissive (BSD-style) license; YMMV.
IANAL, TINLA.

For myself, I feel it would be better not to have GPLed eggs, except when
(as in my own case, q-lang) they are interfaces to underlying programs
which are themselves GPLed.  However, it is better to have a GPLed egg
than no egg.

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