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Richard Stallman writes: > It might be reasonable to divide what is now Guile > into a part that carries the license exception, and a part > that is not relevant to writing most extensible applications > and does not carry the exception. Are there good reasons to provide some add-on modules under the strict GNU GPL, even though they are not based on strongly copylefted libraries? In addition, I've seen some contributed add-on on the guile developper site that uses a stronly copylefted library and still gives the exception permission, so this has been done illegally? (A. Archibald's gdbm module) > > If we do this, it would be reasonable for the part that does not > carry the exception to use Readline. > There are some technical non-copyright-related reasons not to include readline into an application: For example, it messes termios- curses- and termcap-modules up. -- Klaus Schilling