Re: Can you make a closed source application using Guile?

On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 06:50:54PM -0500, Stephen Wiley wrote:
> Closed source as in compiled lisp (not changes to the compiler/runtime?)
> I think so as long as it's dynamical linked. Guile is under the LGPL like
> GNU LibC. So intuitively anything you can do there is probably safe to do
> with guile.

Indeed: it comes with the Lesser GPL, which means that applications linking
to it do not have to be distributed under the GPL.

You still have to take other programs into account you use in yur application
and how you use them, though.

Cheers
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t

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