Hi all, I thought it was neat to see someone submit a Firmata library to the Planet.
http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?package=firmata.plt&owner=xtofs That said, it contains nothing whatsoever about a license. I can't remember: does the package metadata have an explicit license field? Should it be a required field? I poked a few libraries in the list; Untyped seems to be reasonably fastidious about including a LICENSE file, but this doesn't show up in the metadata. The handful of other libraries I looked at contained nothing in the docs or the code w.r.t. either copyright or license. Does this matter? When a GPL'd piece of Racket code does a planet require and pulls in code of unknown provenance... is it pulling in a binary? Source? Is that code still GPL'd, or is it now in violation (or some other confusing state of being)? Just to spot check what other communities do, I looked at CPAN. (No doubt mentioning CPAN in the same message as PLaneT could start a flame war, but that's not my intent...) http://www.perlfoundation.org/cpan_licensing_guidelines They require a clear license. I don't really do enough hacking/contributing in the PLT space at the moment for this to be much more than a "troll" in some ways, but it certainly isn't meant that way. It's just that I was glad to see a connectivity layer for working with the Arduino appear, and then realized that the code wasn't licensed in any way... raising questions about how I could use it in my own programming. Cheers, Matt _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
