Branden Robinson wrote: > I'm going to raise this license on the debian-legal mailing list just to > get some second opinions on it and otherwise get the -legal list > familiar with it, because I don't recall having seen it mentioned there > before. (Or maybe I just missed it.) > > I am not sure the FSF would agree with Franz Incorporated's > interpretation of how the LGPL would apply to a Lisp module, but on the > other hand the document at the URL does seem to cover that possibility > by claiming to supersede the LGPL in any case where the meanings > conflict. > > 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? Very good, Branden. I'm also eager to hear what debian-legal thinks about the mk-defsystem3 license. The upstream author said he'd be willing to make the license DFSG compliant, but he wasn't exactly sure what was incompatible about that license. -- Kevin Rosenberg | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** http://b9.com/debian.html | : :' : The universal GPG signed and encrypted | `. `' Operating System messages accepted. | `- http://www.debian.org/
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