Re: the Lisp Lesser General Public License

To: kmr@debian.org, 161007@bugs.debian.org, debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: the Lisp Lesser General Public License
From: Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:16:22 -0800 (PST)
Message-id: <[🔎] 20021115.131622.74757513.wlandry@ucsd.edu>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20021115210536.GB32236@apocalypse.deadbeast.net>
References: <20021115050408.GL29478@apocalypse.deadbeast.net> <20021115053150.GA8052@rosenberg.net> <[🔎] 20021115210536.GB32236@apocalypse.deadbeast.net>

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> The LLGPL doesn't look like a problem from a DFSG standpoint to me.  Its
> real effect appears to be a liberalization of the copyleft in the LGPL
> ("Since Lisp only offers one choice, which is to link the Library into
> an executable at build time, we declare that, for the purpose applying
> the LGPL to the Library, an executable that results from linking a "work
> that uses the Library" with the Library is considered a "work that uses
> the Library" and is therefore NOT covered by the LGPL.")
> 
> debian-legal, what do you guys think?

Since they aren't getting rid of clause 3 (conversion to GPL), then it
is without a doubt DFSG free.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu

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