Thank you all. Sounds like a case-by-case approach is probably best. I did find the github licence advice pages. It seems that not choosing a licence is probably a bad choice when publishing a racket package: https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/
I can't believe I missed the Racket licence pages! https://download.racket-lang.org/license.html and https://docs.racket-lang.org/license/index.html Thanks again, Stephen On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 8:55 PM Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > Yes, it could be that LGPL is not the best for Racket package authors > who intend something analogous to LGPL for C libraries. (Or who intend > not necessarily that, but something in the neighborhood of that flavor > or degree.) > > Law quickly gets way outside my expertise, and the finer points seem to > need the most masochistic brainiac lawyers to wrestle, so I'd only like > to throw out 3 quick comments at this time: > > * The Racket package system, and ways that systems using Racket are > distributed in practice, as well as the market potential, have changed > since I picked a license. > > * I think industry and open source practice, the information technology > infrastructure, and the world have all changed substantially since open > source people really-really rethought licenses. > > * Having been engaged with GNU and FSF for many years, and occasionally > talking with RMS, including about "linking" subtleties and > implications... the various FSF technicalities are usually imperfect, or > not entirely clear. (The reason seems to be difficulty of legal > constructs that capture intent over decades, for evolving technology, > and without the benefit/curse of a legislative system. Though the FSF > remains an interactive component, for one-on-one interpretation, as well > as leaving the "or any later version" evolutionary hook in the language.) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
