On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Leif Andersen <l...@leifandersen.net> wrote:
>> If the intention wasn't to force programs written in racket to be open >> source, then why wasn't an explicit exemption of the runtime libraries made, >> like other projects have? (As stated, like it was done for e.g. GCC and >> Java.) > > This is probably because none of us are lawyers. And are thus hesitant > to write legal documents. One important thing to note is that Racket re-uses a number of libraries which are also licensed under the LGPL (such as Lightning, in the JIT, and pango & cairo, in the GUI), which we do not have the copyright for and therefore cannot offer exemptions for. Sam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
