Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [gnu.org #48656] Re: GCL compliance with GNU GPL

[Jong-Kyou Kim]

Hello Sam,

I'm sorry for posting incorrect information regarding the legality of using 
CLisp for commercial use and regarding my citation. I should have consulted 
more people before making decision and have read more carefully before simply 
guessing from the source of the link.

Anyway, I'm greatly pleased for knowing that I could persuade my colleague to 
use CLisp for my job in the future. He was almost freaked out when he knew that 
I was using CLisp, which he regarded illegal even for internal use without 
posting the source code :).

Thank you very much for correcting my mistakes and for giving me very useful 
information.

Best Regards,

Jong-Kyou Kim.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Steingold" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 10:17 PM
Subject: [Gcl-devel] Re: [gnu.org #48656] Re: GCL compliance with GNU GPL


> > * In message <address@hidden>
> > * On the subject of "Re: Re: [gnu.org #48656] Re: GCL compliance with GNU 
> > GPL"
> > * Sent on Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:33:20 +0900
> > * Honorable "Jong-Kyou Kim" <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > Making proprietary image of CLisp is exempted only when it is
> >   independent work. Being an independent work, according to the
> >   licensing term, is that the work could run without referring any
> >   symbols except the ones in the package COMMON-LISP,
> >   COMMON-LISP-USER, KEYWORD, and EXT.
> > 
> > It means, as far as I understand, I cannot develop any system which
> > uses socket connections since it uses socket package. I think this
> > exception makes sense under GPL since CLisp, in this case, serves only
> > as a substitute of any other common lisp platform and have little to
> > do with the proprietary code.
> 
> the socket interface is re-exported from EXT, so you _can_ use them in
> a proprietary image.
> 
> > PS. After reading the e-mail between RMS and Sam, I think 2) could
> > have some trouble. Even Sam proposed dual version of CLisp systems,
> > one with readline and one without readline, RMS didn't agree that the
> > one without readline could be released under LGPL.
> 
> RMS was talking to _Bruno Haible_, not me!
> did you bother to look at the headers?!
> 
> 
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