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Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library
From: |
Tamas K Papp |
Subject: |
Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 16:10:55 -0000 |
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On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:44:14 -0400, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
> On 2010-03-25 06:06:09 -0400, Andrew Haley said:
>
>> There's nothing ironic about it. The FSF seeks to maximize freedom, so
>> licenses code whichever way works best. Libraries sometimes have
>> different needs from applications.
>
> Which is why I suggest that Pascal's lisp libraries would be more useful
> licensed under the LLGPL than the GPL. It's ironic because the FSF is
> the creator of the GPL, and even they recognized that the GPL was a poor
> fit for libraries which is why they created the Library (now Lesser)
> GPL.
I disagree -- I don't think that the FSF considers the GPL a "poor
fit" for libraries. Quite the opposite (see [1]). They just
recognized that in certain situations, some people would prefer
something like the LGPL, and I guess that they wanted to give them the
choice. But the GPL is still the option they recommend, even for
libraries.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
Regarding the broader issue (of how people license their libraries): I
think this is an optimization problem where people have heterogeneous
objective functions, and thus trying to convince people to pick
another license is not always a worthwhile.
It is possible that someone using a GPL/LGPL/LLGPL/BSD/MIT/... license
is perfectly aware of the advantages and disadvantages, it is just that
they decided to make a different choice. In which case, threads like these
are unlikely to be fruitful.
Regards,
Tamas
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, (continued)
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Peter Keller, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Hyman Rosen, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Raffael Cavallaro, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Hyman Rosen, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library,
Tamas K Papp <=
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Raffael Cavallaro, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Pillsy, 2010/05/04
Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/05/04
Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Pillsy, 2010/05/04