www/licenses license-list.html

[Brett Smith]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Brett Smith <brett>     07/07/11 15:00:50

Modified files:
        licenses       : license-list.html 

Log message:
        Remove a few entries:
        
        * Guile is LGPLed, instead of GPL+exception.
        
        * Accordingly, the entry for Ada has to go too.  I'm still not entirely
          sure what its license is -- when I look at the Ada source, only a few
          files in the examples/ tree seem to have any kind of exception to the
          GPL.  I will mail the maintainer to ask about this, but no matter what
          the answer is, I don't see a particular need to document it on
          license-list: it's not like we do that for Classpath, or the parts of 
GCC
          that have it, or anything else like that.  It doesn't come up often
          either.
        
        * The Vita Nuova license is no longer in use.  (I only noticed this by
          trawling the CVS logs looking for clues about the Ada license.  Dave
          removed this entry a while ago, and then Karl added it back because it
          was still on fsf.org.  Heh, oops.  :) )

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/license-list.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.196&r2=1.197

Patches:
Index: license-list.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/license-list.html,v
retrieving revision 1.196
retrieving revision 1.197
diff -u -b -r1.196 -r1.197
--- license-list.html   11 Jul 2007 13:42:56 -0000      1.196
+++ license-list.html   11 Jul 2007 15:00:46 -0000      1.197
@@ -86,21 +86,6 @@
 sometimes more appropriate for libraries</a>.</p></dd>
 
 
-<dt>License of Guile</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>This consists of the GNU GPL plus a special statement giving blanket
-permission to link with non-free software.  As a result, it is not a strong
-copyleft, and it is compatible with the GNU GPL.  We recommend it for
-special circumstances only--much the same circumstances where you might
-consider using the <a
-href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html";>LGPL</a>.</p></dd>
-
-
-<dt>License of the run-time units of the GNU Ada compiler</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>This is much like that of Guile.</p></dd>
-
-
 <dt><a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0";>
     Apache License, Version 2.0</a></dt>
 <dd>
@@ -807,16 +792,6 @@
 License</a> which is not a free software license.</p></dd>
 
 
-<dt><a href="http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/liblicence.txt";>
-    Vita Nuova Liberal Source License</a></dt>
-<dd>
-<p>This is a copyleft free software license, incompatible with the
-GNU GPL. We recommend that you not use this license for new software
-that you write, but it is ok to use and improve Inferno under this
-license.</p></dd>
-    
-
-
 <dt><a id="XFree861.1License">XFree86 1.1 License</a></dt>
 <dd>
 <p>This is a simple, permissive non-copyleft free software license,
@@ -1440,7 +1415,7 @@
   <p>
     Updated:
     <!-- timestamp start -->
-    $Date: 2007/07/11 13:42:56 $
+    $Date: 2007/07/11 15:00:46 $
     <!-- timestamp end -->
   </p>
 </div>