On Aug 19 2025, 21:05 +0000, Rolando Abarca <cpm.rolan...@gmail.com> wrote: [-- Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8, Encoding: quoted-printable, Size: 1.2K --]
On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM Pietro Cerutti via Chicken-users <[1] chicken-users@nongnu.org> wrote: The thing is that I'm never sure when it comes to GPL.. it's complicated, opinions vary, and the "linking" argument scares me a bit. Does including the Schematra module represent a derived work, and would that imply that websites using it need to be GPL too? If that's the case, I would perceive it as a pretty strong limitation. That's a very good point. I completely forgot about linking (I still had my mind in the interpreted world).
I think the FSF's stance on importing GPL software in an interpreted context is that it still constitutes derived work: you're still ending up with the GPL code and the other code sharing the same address space, which would be equivalent to linking. The FSF tends to put the focus on the means of communication, i.e., one process having GPL and something else in the same address space vs. two processes talking via IPC:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#MereAggregation
Ok, let me do some research about this, I'll need to change the license to something else because it's definitely a strong limitation. Thanks for bringing this up!
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