Re: [clisp-list] Re: standalone executables & command line arguments

[Pascal B. <pj...@in...>]

Roman Belenov writes:
> Pascal Bourguignon <pj...@in...> writes:
> 
> > IIUC, the GPL implies that a user must be able to extract the image,
> > and to compile a patched version of clisp (eg. with added modules),
> > and to save a new executable with the extracted image and the patched
> > clisp.
> 
> IMHO GPL requires only the source availability, so pointers to the source of
> the clisp and the application (giving the user the possibility to create the
> image himself) should be sufficient (and they are required anyway).
> 
> > Similarly, he should be able to patch any clisp lisp function
> > (ie. needs a REPL in the saved image).
> 
> Having the source gives user the possibility to enable repl even if
> application author/maintainer hided it.

Indeed, the sources of clisp, the .fas of the application and a script
to build the image anew.  Then the user can modify it to generate a
version of the image with REPL.

 
> > All this even without considering the license of the application in this
> > image.
> 
> Relationship between clisp and clisp-based application seems to be close
> enough to propagate GPL to the app.

Not necessarily.


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