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<apteryx>snarfi just got a HTML table -> Texinfo multitable converter <apteryx>no spans support yet, but that's probably rare in SRFI specs <sneek>I think I remember stis in #guile 5 months ago, saying: One can derive planc's constant, explain a meassured mass anommally, understand what the fine structure constant is .... <dsmith>janneke, Pretty sure that python is from from stis. Looks like he hasn't been around here lately either. <apteryx>why is there a COPYING file containing the GPL-3.0-or-later license text? <apteryx>in the Guile tree; isn't it supposed to be licensed as LGPL-3.0-or-later? <apteryx>(there's also a COPYING.LESSER file) <dsmith>Long time ago, before there was a LGPL, Guile was GPL + some extra permissions/exceptions or something. SO you could use it with non-GPL code <apteryx>Arsen: I see; the text of the LGPL builds on top of the GPL license, so it makes sense to have the GPL text in the tree as well? <apteryx>"This version of the GNU Lesser General Public License incorporates the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, supplemented by the additional permissions listed below." <apteryx>reuse download LGPL-3.0-or-later puts the LGPL text at tE top of LICENSES/LGPL-3.0-or-later.txt, and the GPL text appears in the same file below it. <Arsen> * a reference to the file which contains the copying conditions. The <Arsen> GNU GPL, if used, should be in a file called 'COPYING'. If the GNU <Arsen> LGPL is used, it should be in a file called 'COPYING.LESSER'. <apteryx>I wasn't adding anything new, but it makes sense :-) <Kolev>Yeah, the FSF recommends COPYING.LESSER for the LGPL. <apteryx>I find it somewhat confusing, I guess it's designed to be ;-) <Arsen>the files licenses are in have no bearing on licenses of individual files. the reason COPYING.LESSER is in COPYING.LESSER is because copyright headers refer to it <dsmith>For example, most of Guile is now LGPL, but the readline stuff is GPL <apteryx>and that's maintained in the same repository?