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Re:A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp by narag on Thursday November 26, 2009 @02:45PM (#963033)
IIRC, there is another license (guile, maybe?) that's identical to GPL except it doesn't affect the outer program.
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Re:A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp by justinhj on Friday November 27, 2009 @01:04AM (#963508)
MIT license is far less restrictive.
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Re:A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp by narag on Friday November 27, 2009 @11:18AM (#964024)
Of course, but if you want to go with the GPL, you can use exceptions and protect just the part you want.
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Re:A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp by silentbicycle on Friday November 27, 2009 @09:02AM (#963887)
That's the LGPL, used in the GMP library for example.
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Re:A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp by narag on Friday November 27, 2009 @11:18AM (#964025)
No, it's not: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.6/guile-ref/Gu...
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Re:A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp by silentbicycle on Sunday November 29, 2009 @08:47AM (#966321)
You're right - Guile has its own license. The LGPL has similar concessions to linking to non-GPL programs, though.
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