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Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken]
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Peter Keller |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken] |
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Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:37:58 -0500 |
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On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 10:42:55AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> "felix" <address@hidden> writes:
> > * Support for the full numeric tower, ideally built on top of Pete's
> > GMP library. This would need a patch to the compiler to disallow
> > rewriting calls to `+', etc. (but the patch can be done via `-extend').
>
> Hmm. Perhaps good, but I'll note that GMP is GPLed. If you intend to
> keep Chicken BSD licensed, you would be better off using the MP
> library from OpenSSL. It is damn fast, too, and if you incorporate
> enough of its interfaces, you get very fast modular bignum arithmetic
> suitable for all sorts of evil cryptographic uses. As someone who
> intends to build code that does evil cryptographic stuff I find that
> attractive. :)
You make a mistake, it is LGPL'ed, not GPL'ed. That means you can link with
it and the program you link with does not have to become GPL'ed. I made my
library the same way, LGPL'ed. This means, it should be ok to use with chicken
without any problems.
> If of course you don't intend to keep Chicken BSD licensed, it doesn't
> matter, but I will note one of the things that attracted me to it was
> the license.
Yeah, William and I were going to use another scheme implementation except
it had a "you get all our work for free and we lose it" kinda license, so
we avoided it.
-pete
- [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken], felix, 2002/08/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken], Perry E. Metzger, 2002/08/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken],
Peter Keller <=
- Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken], Perry E. Metzger, 2002/08/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken], Peter Keller, 2002/08/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken], Perry E. Metzger, 2002/08/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken], Peter Keller, 2002/08/10
- Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken], Perry E. Metzger, 2002/08/10
- Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken], Peter Keller, 2002/08/10
- Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken], Peter Keller, 2002/08/11
- Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken], Perry E. Metzger, 2002/08/11
- Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken], Peter Keller, 2002/08/11
- Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken], Perry E. Metzger, 2002/08/11