On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Andreas Rottmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Uhm, GMP is LGPL, so Chicken can use whatever license it likes, even if
> it would start to use GMP.
>

While strictly that is true, It does put some limitations on chicken and
built binaries. For instance, the LGPL requires everything to be dynamic
linked, which makes distribution of a single file executable built by
chicken more difficult, or impossible license wise. Perhaps more
importantly, Using GMP will prevent using chicken in embedded/proprietary
environments where NDAs prevent people without licenses from writting for
the platform (LGPL 3 has an anti-tivoization clause afaik) or where the NDA
prevents releasing of any required modifications for the platform.

Nicholas "Indy" Ray
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