Re: [TCLCORE] GPL Licence in TCLLib added

[Brian G. <bri...@ea...>]

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


> On Nov 5, 2024, at 11:15 AM, Poor Yorick wrote:
>
> On 2024-11-05 17:45, Jan Nijtmans wrote:
>> Op di 5 nov 2024 om 16:40 schreef Poor Yorick <
>> org...@po...>:
>>> Since when is the GPL license not allowed?
>> See: Tcl Library Source Code: Documentation
>>
>> Section "Contributor":
>> As a contributor to Tcllib you are committing yourself to:
>> 1.
>> keep the guidelines written down in *Tcl Community - Kind Communication
>> *
>> in
>> your mind. The main point to take away from there is *to be kind to each
>> other*.
>> 2.
>> Your contributions getting distributed under a BSD/MIT license. For the
>> details see *Tcllib - License
>> *
>> Contributions are made by entering tickets into our tracker, providing
>> patches, bundles or branches of code for inclusion, or posting to the
>> Tcllib related mailing lists.
>> Regards,
>> Jan Nijtmans
>
> Aku added that documentation in 2019, so it's relatively new. Prohibiting the GPL means prohibiting the inclusion of works that are freely distributable, and probably useful to many users of Tcllib.
>
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> Yorick
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