Re: [Chicken-users] Comprehensive documentation rewrite

[Ivan Raikov]

  Yes, you are right that you have to distribute the Scheme code, I
realized that last night after going home. If that wasn't the case,
you could simply distribute generated assembly code for everything. As
for GPL-ed dependencies, what I meant was that you could ask the
author(s) of any GPL-ed eggs to make an exception for the particular
purposes of your project, similar to the approach taken by Debian.

   -Ivan


John Cowan <address@hidden> writes:

>
> I can't, in general, distribute such generated code without the
> Scheme source, however, as generated code is not "the preferred form
> of the work for making modifications to it"; i.e. it is not source
> at all in the eyes of the GPL.
>
> And adding an exception to the egg helps not at all if the
> underlying dependency is itself GPLed.