I've just received some queries about Guile's licensing from the FSF
folks. I think all of the following are just oversights, but if
anyone else has any input on them, please follow up.
> [..] under the impression that Guile had switched completely to
> LGPL to 1.8, instead of GPL + exception.
>
> However, a few files in 1.8.3 (I admit I didn't check the dev sources)
> still have the exception text. My grep for special.exception turned up:
> libguile.h
> libguile/__scm.h
> libguile/_scm.h
> libguile/weaks.c
> srfi/srfi-39.scm
> doc/oldfmt.c
I believe these are oversights, so would propose to update the license
text in these files to LGPL.
> Also, there is a COPYING file in many of the subdirectories. This is
> rather unusual. One copy for the distribution would be sufficient.
I propose to remove the non-top-level ones.
> Also, the recommended name for the top-level COPYING.LIB is now
> COPYING.LESSER.
I propose to make this name change.
Any comments?
Regards,
Neil
