Re: guile-json, SRIFs and licenses

2019-11-09 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi John, John Cowan writes: > [...] There are two traditional arguments > in favor of putting libraries under the GPL: [...] > 2) "Benefit GPLed programs": if a library is GPLed, it supposedly gives > the advantages of using that library only to GPLed applications. You're mistaken. A GPLed

Re: guile-json, SRIFs and licenses

2019-11-09 Thread John Cowan
On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 8:29 AM Mark H Weaver wrote: > You're mistaken. A GPLed library can be used by any program covered by > a *GPL-compatible* license. > At the cost of making the resulting work as a whole under the GPL. > Those are major historical examples, but the same thing happens qu