Reconsidering the GPL licensing of Maxima

Richard Fateman  writes:
...
>     There can be no doubt that Schelter knew perfectly well the
>     differences between GPL and, say, LGPL.  Please read
>     
>     ftp://ftp.ma.utexas.edu/pub/gcl/GCL.README
>
> I just read through it.  Indeed I agree that Bill was aware of LGPL,
> at least when he wrote that.  But does it make sense that he would
> have his fixes and additions to GCL or AKCL be licensed under LGPL,
> but his fixes and additions to Maxima licensed more restrictively
> under GPL??

It makes sense if he did it.  I don't think it makes sense to say he
didn't know what he was doing.
Changing the license is one thing; saying Bill Schelter didn't know
what he was doing is another.

Jay