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Re: [chicken-users] silex GPL-2 licensed?
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John Cowan |
Subject: |
Re: [chicken-users] silex GPL-2 licensed? |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:59:47 -0400 |
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minh thu scripsit:
> > That's right. Of course, if you use a GPLed egg, you have to distribute
> > Scheme source for your whole app. C source is obfuscated and doesn't
> > count for GPL purposes.
>
> It seems to me that you both say the opposite. I understand the
> exemple above of distributing averything in C form includes C code
> from any egg (under any license, not just BSD).
Not from just any egg. If the egg is compile-time-only, there is no
problem. But if a GPLed egg provides runtime code to the final program,
such as the mpi or readline eggs, then it is in violation of the GPL to
distribute the C version only.
--
John Cowan address@hidden http://ccil.org/~cowan
If he has seen farther than others,
it is because he is standing on a stack of dwarves.
--Mike Champion, describing Tim Berners-Lee (adapted)
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