[plt-scheme] input requested from people who care about licenses of scheme libraries
Most of my existing free Scheme libraries are distributed under the LGPL
2.1 license.
I'm thinking of distributing most of my *new* Scheme libraries of under
the more restrictive GPL 3 or AGPL 3 licenses. (I plan to keep new
versions of existing libraries under their existing licenses.)
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
Developers would of course have the option of negotiating alternative
licenses with me.
My original motivation for picking LGPL 2.1 over GPL 2.1 is that I
thought LGPL was the best way to promote use of Scheme in my own small
way. With Scheme now having good name-recognition among software
techies, Scheme has less need of help.
My primary motivation now is to encourage software that uses my new free
Scheme libraries to be shared in the same spirit that the libraries are.
I'm posting this question here in addition to my blog, since I believe
PLT is the most popular Scheme, and a few people here use my libraries.
Please feel free to email me privately with your comments.
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http://www.neilvandyke.org/