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Re:Chez Scheme as the Racket VM by throwaway7645 on Friday February 17, 2017 @06:22AM (#13667466)
Yea, I'd expect it to be big, but 10 MB is still easily distributable, so not bad. How is the licensing though? Do you have to include the source (GPL) or is that only if you modify the source?
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Re:Chez Scheme as the Racket VM by e12e on Friday February 17, 2017 @09:42AM (#13668517)
Racket is LGPL - but I'm not crystal clear on the implications for executables - according to the racket team (in this random reddit thread) - it looks like they see stand alone executables as being fine under their LGPL :

https://www.reddit.com/r/scheme/comments/2bu321/not_that_i_d...

Shouldn't be too far off from gcc/glibc really.

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Re:Chez Scheme as the Racket VM by soegaard on Friday February 17, 2017 @10:56AM (#13669080)
Not for long! The Racket community is in the process of relicensing under a more permissive license.

See https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/1570

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