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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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