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neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher) writes:
>- And finally, as an *extension* language, Gel will be unuseable for
>  commercial programs. This point seems to have been frequently misunderstood:

Including by you, it appears.

>   the question is not whether *user scripts* written in Gel will be
>   automatically copylefted: they won't be. The problem is that the Gel
>   *system* will have to be linked into the program to be scripted, and if Gel
>   is copylefted, every scriptable program using it would have to be
>   copylefted.

Go back to RMS's original note.  He said that the embedded interpreter
would *not* be copylefted and would be includable in commercial programs.

Whether this new language is a good idea is another matter, but you can
remove the GPL from the set of issues.


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