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scsh licensing


Hi,

I went to make an rpm of scsh and stopped when I looked up the
licensing terms which require your notification before commercial use.
I'm disappointed.  This requirement means that I can't upload an scsh
rpm (or really, anything that would require it) to RedHat or anywhere
else that would distribute it on CD.  It's just impractical for them
to discover that they have to notify you, as it would be for many
commercial software developers; who may only incidently use scsh
because something they use depends on it.

If you really want scheme to take over the world, as I do, I'd urge
you to adopt the GNU license, or something less restrictive.  The
large number of software components in archives distributed on
commercial CDs, and in commercial software products, make notification
of all authors unfeasible.  Acknowledgement, on the other hand, can be
done simply and easily by including the copyright notice file in with
distributed source code.

I'd like to see scsh widely used, but I just don't see that happening
with your current license.  At present, I'm reluctantly giving up on
scsh and using guile (the GNU scheme) for my scripting needs because I
don't want to put any work into something that won't be able to be of
benefit to many people.

Regards and best of luck with scsh,

Karl <kop@meme.com>