Re: [TCLCORE] GPL Licence in TCLLib added

[Poor Y. <org...@po...>]

On 2024-11-05 19:55, Brian Griffin wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2024, at 08:39, Kevin Walzer <kw...@co...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> The strong tradition in Tcl is for non-copyleft code.
> 
> The more important reason for this is that GPL taints any code it 
> touches. The consequence is that any commercial product built with Tcl 
> embedded in it, is rendered effectively public domain. This is not a 
> good revenue model for commercial software.
> 
> Considering that a lot of contributors and maintainers are also selling 
> end products, It is critically important not to jeopardize those 
> enterprises well being.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> 

There is no question here that official Tcl releases will be under the 
license
they always have been.  The question here is whether there is room in 
TCLLIB,
which is a collection of disparate software works, for a work licensed 
under
the GPL.

-- 
Yorick