Hello,
I have been trawling through the packages at:
http://pkg.racket-lang.orgAnd have found that very few of the packages have any licensing informationand are effectively proprietary software, despite what their authors may have
intended. I can therefore study them, but not use them without breakingcopyright law. For a hobbyist this is easy enough to overlook, but for anyone
wanting to use Racket commercially this means that most of the packages are unusable without contacting the authors and seeing what terms they are prepared to license their code under.This is a big enough pain for packages outside the main distribution, but I have
also noticed that packages in the main distribution do not contain licence information either. A typical example is: https://pkg.racket-lang.org/info/html-lib In html/html.rkt, it contains: copyright by Paul Graunke June 2000 AD But has no licensing info anywhere in the package. This was presumably LGPLcode that was extracted to a package from the main racket repository. Without
that licensing information it contravenes the terms of the LGPL and moreimportantly, to me, means I can't use it as it hasn't been licensed for use by anyone
through that package. Thanks Lorry -- vLife Systems Ltd Registered Office: The Meridian, 4 Copthall House, Station Square, Coventry, CV1 2FL Registered in England and Wales No. 06477649 http://vlifesystems.com
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