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Re: Dybvig's syntax-case --- (ice-9 syncase) --- removed





>syntax-case is a powerful hygenic macro-expansion facility designed
>and implemented by R. Kent Dybvig, Oscar Waddell, Bob Hieb, Carl
>Bruggeman at Indiana University.  Some Guile snapshots included this
>macro expander as a Guile module, but we cannot distribute it, because
>the authors have not assigned the code's copyright to the Free
>Software Foundation.

Can someone explain the policy here. Is the problem that this was not GPL,
or is the problem that the copyright
owner did not assign ownership to the FSF?

If the latter, why is that a problem? As long as everything is GPL, I can't
 see why it matters who owns it.