[Ecls-list] success, was: broken local installation of ecl

[Anton Vodonosov]

on Thursday, August 28, 2008, 10:15:15 PM Oliver wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 07:37:14PM +0200, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
>> Clisp is linked with it. ECL has _never_ and will never use
>> it, because it carries a license

> apparently you mean GPLv2

>> that would automatically turn ECL
>> into a GPL project, preventing any commercial use.
>>

> Sorry, but that's nonsense.

> By using gcc (GPL) or readline or
> whatsoever you do not need to take over the GPL, since it's just a tool.
> These things are discussed at many places at length, see for example
> http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-guide.html.
> (Just an example: FreeBSD uses readline.)

> So, please, say what you really mean, and this open on the project 
> web page: You fight certain forms of open source/ free software, and 
> thus you will not use some software (don't hide behind fake technical argumentation).
> (I'm not arguing here against political decisions: The point is honesty.)
>

Take a look, Clisp is GPL'ed exactly because of readline

http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL

Best regards,
-Anton