[Clo-cvs] CVS update: public_html/faq.shtml

[Nikodemus Siivola]

Update of /project/clo/cvsroot/public_html
In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv14614

Modified Files:
	faq.shtml 
Log Message:
Added LGPL issues.
Date: Sat May  8 06:01:37 2004
Author: nsiivola

Index: public_html/faq.shtml
diff -u public_html/faq.shtml:1.2 public_html/faq.shtml:1.3
--- public_html/faq.shtml:1.2	Mon Mar 15 12:48:25 2004
+++ public_html/faq.shtml	Sat May  8 06:01:37 2004
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
     <div class="sideBox LHS">
       <div>This Page</div>
       <a href="#checkout">CVS checkout</a>
+      <a href="#lgpl">LGPL issues</a>
     </div>
 
 
@@ -59,6 +60,37 @@
       </pre>
 
       <a class="topOfPage" href="#top" title="Go to top of page">top</a><br/>
+
+      <h1 id="lgpl">What's wrong with LGPL?</h1>
+
+      <p>Nothing per se, but it probably does not mean what you think
+      it means: <a
+      href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">LGPL</a>'s highly
+      C-centric language makes a distinction between static and
+      dynamic linking, but tells us very little about the issues
+      central for Lisp use:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+       <li>Is loading LGPL code into a non-LGPL image ok? (runtime dependancy)</li>
+       <li>Is it ok to use LGPL macros in non-LGPL code? (compile-time dependency)</li>
+       <li>Is it ok to redefine operators provided by the LGPL code
+           in non-LGPL code?</li>
+       <li>Is it ok to distribute an image with LGPL code loaded?</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>Whether or not these questions are answerable within LGPL's
+      bounds is one thing, but given that the interpetation is not
+      clear we don't recommend using LGPL for Common-lisp.net
+      projects. If you want to disallow all of the above use <a
+      href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#TOCGPL">GPL</a>,
+      and if you want to allow some or all of them use <a
+      href="http://opensource.franz.com/">LLPGL</a> or <a
+      href="http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt">MIT</a>/<a
+      href="http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/COPYRIGHT2.html#4">BSD</a>/<a
+      href="http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html">X11</a>-style
+      licences.</p>
+      
+      <a class="topOfPage" href="#top" title="Go to top of page">top</a><br/>      
 
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