From mrsam@courier-mta.com Mon May 23 03:56:05 2005 Received: from mail.courier-mta.com [216.254.115.84] by smtp.science.uva.nl with ESMTP (sendmail 8.11.6p2/config 11.35). id j4N1u1l31610; Mon, 23 May 2005 03:56:01 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 8) by commodore.email-scan.com with local; Sun, 22 May 2005 21:56:05 -0400 id 0000000000137668.0000000042913835.00006534 X-IMAP-Sender: mrsam@courier-mta.com References: <200505222138.13486.wielemak@science.uva.nl> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Sam Varshavchik To: Jan Wielemaker X-PGP-KEY: http://www.courier-mta.org/KEYS.bin Subject: Re: Use of maildrop rfc822 and rfc2047 libraries in SWI-Prolog Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 21:56:05 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=_mimegpg-commodore.email-scan.com-24916-1116813365-0003"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0, required=5.0, tests=BAYES_50 X-Spam-Rating: 0 X-UID: 13043 X-Length: 2555 This is a MIME GnuPG-signed message. If you see this text, it means that your E-mail or Usenet software does not support MIME signed messages. --=_mimegpg-commodore.email-scan.com-24916-1116813365-0003 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jan Wielemaker writes: > Now the trouble is that your libraries are GPL, while the core of > SWI-Prolog and all its core packages are LGPL. In theory, loading > the mime library, which causes your code to be loaded as a shared > object, turns the entire process with whatever the user has added > to it to GPL. This is undesirable. > > I would like to ask permission to either distribute these libraries > under the LGPL or make a statement that allows use with SWI-Prolog > without turning everything to GPL. The current versions of librfc822 and librfc2047 may be distributed under the terms of LGPL 2.1 only as part of, and in conjunction with SWI-Prolog. --=_mimegpg-commodore.email-scan.com-24916-1116813365-0003 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCkTg1x9p3GYHlUOIRAnbaAJ9atylLK74/CO/oZ2x4U0hZPhLYaACdH/Ub ocEI7RDpO9vBq26cnyw1UFE= =mXhm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_mimegpg-commodore.email-scan.com-24916-1116813365-0003--