[Gcl-devel] 2.6.8 licensing

2010-10-27 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! The FSF has requested that we change the software license to GPLv3 or later, and the documentation license FDLv1.3 or later. By this I think they mean LGPLv3 of course. To remain consistent with the Debian Free Software guidelines, I think we'd have to add with no invariant sections,

Re: [Gcl-devel] 2.6.8 licensing

2010-10-27 Thread David Billinghurst
Camm Maguire wrote: I'm considering removing the binutils subtree, as all targets are working now with custreloc save ia64 and hppa, which use dlopen as always. One can still build against an external bfd library if desired. It is probably necessary to keep the local gmp copy as a convenience

Re: [Gcl-devel] 2.6.8 licensing

2010-10-27 Thread Jerry James
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org wrote: Greetings!  The FSF has requested that we change the software license to GPLv3 or later, and the documentation license FDLv1.3 or later. By this I think they mean LGPLv3 of course. Forgive me if I've mistaken your

Re: [Gcl-devel] 2.6.8 licensing

2010-10-27 Thread Donald Winiecki
A change to the most recent licenses will make things consistent with FSF's current way of thinking about open source, though more aggressive developers seem to think it's restrictive. Given the typical users and usual applications of GCL, this may not be an issue. But I'm not sure -- if GCL is

[Gcl-devel] Re: 2.6.8 licensing

2010-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Donald Winiecki dwinie...@boisestate.edu writes: | A change to the most recent licenses will make things consistent with | FSF's current way of thinking about open source, though more | aggressive developers seem to think it's restrictive. Given the | typical users and usual applications of GCL,