Re: New egg: schematra

I forgot to reply to this thread, but in the latest release, where I also
split the eggs, I changed the license to BSD.

Enjoy!
- Rolando

On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM Pietro Cerutti via Chicken-users <
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> On Aug 19 2025, 21:05 +0000, Rolando Abarca <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> >On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM Pietro Cerutti via Chicken-users <[1]
> >[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >    The thing is that I'm never sure when it comes to GPL.. it's
> complicated,
> >    opinions vary, and the "linking" argument scares me a bit. Does
> including
> >    the Schematra module represent a derived work, and would that imply
> that
> >    websites using it need to be GPL too?
> >    If that's the case, I would perceive it as a pretty strong limitation.
> >
> >
> >That's a very good point. I completely forgot about linking (I still had
> my
> >mind in the interpreted world).
>
> I think the FSF's stance on importing GPL software in an interpreted
> context is that it still constitutes derived work: you're still ending
> up with the GPL code and the other code sharing the same address space,
> which would be equivalent to linking. The FSF tends to put the focus on
> the means of communication, i.e., one process having GPL and something
> else in the same address space vs. two processes talking via IPC:
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#MereAggregation
>
>
> > Ok, let me do some research about this, I'll
> >need to change the license to something else because it's definitely a
> strong
> >limitation.
> >Thanks for bringing this up!
>
> Thank you for your consideration!
>
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