Re: Is the Guile license OSI approved?

2001-12-01 Thread David Woolley
David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not at all. The exception only means that the license does not apply to certain works. It does not say that those works cannot have any license at Which means that there are no copyright permissions for the library, and therefore those works, as

Re: Is the Guile license OSI approved?

2001-11-30 Thread David Woolley
Martin Wolters [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: You can find a few open source projects on the web that use the so called guile license which is the GPL + the following paragraph: As a special exception, if you link this library with other files to produce an executable, this

Re: Is the Guile license OSI approved?

2001-11-30 Thread phil hunt
On Friday 30 November 2001 4:23 am, J C Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:10:42 -0800 (PST) Andy Tai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the history of Free Software and Open Source (that Open Source is a marketing name (Bruce Perens) or marketing program (Eric Raymond) for Free

Re: Is the Guile license OSI approved?

2001-11-30 Thread David Johnson
On Friday 30 November 2001 02:46 am, David Woolley wrote: Martin Wolters [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: You can find a few open source projects on the web that use the so called guile license which is the GPL + the following paragraph: As a special exception, if you link this

Re: Is the Guile license OSI approved?

2001-11-29 Thread Andy Tai
Given the history of Free Software and Open Source (that Open Source is a marketing name (Bruce Perens) or marketing program (Eric Raymond) for Free Software), can there be any question that a software license the Free Software Foundation published is not Open Source? FSF may never seek OSI

Re: Is the Guile license OSI approved?

2001-11-29 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:10:42 -0800 (PST) Andy Tai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the history of Free Software and Open Source (that Open Source is a marketing name (Bruce Perens) or marketing program (Eric Raymond) for Free Software), can there be any question that a software license the

Is the Guile license OSI approved?

2001-11-28 Thread Martin Wolters
To whom it may concern: You can find a few open source projects on the web that use the so called guile license which is the GPL + the following paragraph: As a special exception, if you link this library with other files to produce an executable, this library does not by itself