Hi, On Sat 25 Jul 2009 23:30, Andreas Rottmann <a.rottm...@gmx.at> writes:
> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > >> On Fri 24 Jul 2009 00:35, Andreas Rottmann <a.rottm...@gmx.at> writes: >> >>> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: >>> >>>> On Fri 03 Jul 2009 02:04, Andreas Rottmann <a.rottm...@gmx.at> writes: >>>> >>>>> Playing around with Guile's now-in-core syntax-case support (using Git >>>>> HEAD as of today), I found that quasisyntax seems quite broken: >>>> >>>> We've spoken over IRC since then, but for those that do not frequent >>>> there, it's simply not implemented. You can implement it in terms of >>>> with-syntax, though. Did you have a patch for that, Andreas? >>>> >>> Yep, the patch is attached: >> >> What is the license of this code? >> > It's under the (unmodified) MIT license, see > <http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-process.html> Hm. I have no idea what this means for Guile. It seems we need either a disclaimer or an assignment. Now, it seems that something happened in the past with psyntax which would seem to go against this, though: commit 9d1a28471c4e69ee151a85d44f8888a69bf102ec Author: Jim Blandy <j...@red-bean.com> Date: Mon Oct 19 13:43:50 1998 +0000 We can't include Kent Dybvig's syntax-case macro expander in the core Guile distribution, because we don't have copyright assignments for this code. We can certainly distribute them as a separate package, but Guile should be FSF code. * syncase.scm, psyntax.pp, psyntax.ss: Removed. * Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Removed syncase.scm, psyntax.pp, and psyntax.ss. * Makefile.in: Regenerated. * Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Add getopt-gnu-style.scm. * Makefile.in: Regenerated. But then: commit a63812a2fef2f81b8c4eca04c858e42b62e455f9 Author: Jim Blandy <j...@red-bean.com> Date: Mon Oct 19 15:38:05 1998 +0000 Talked to Stallman. Actually, the syntax-case copyright is no problem. Duh. * Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Revert last change. * syncase.scm, psyntax.pp, psyntax.ss: Added again. * Makefile.in: Regeneretade. So I don't know what the deal is. I'll defer to Neil and Ludovic. > it would be (IMHO) kinda dumb to have to ignore/rewrite all the > perfectly (L)GPL-compatible BSD- and MIT-licensed code that's out > there, as you cannot expect the respective authors to all sign > copyright assignments for Guile... Yes, I agree. Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
