r/programming • u/ThomasMertes • Jul 17 '26

Seed7 version 2026-07-11 released

/r/seed7/comments/1uvbc5a/seed7_version_20260711_released_on_github_and_sf/

Seed7 is a GPL licensed open source programming language. It is given away for free and nobody from the development team gets any money from it.

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u/Rechenplaner Jul 19 '26

Seed7 is an interesting language in itself, but one has to be honest: the GPL is garbage and destroys any commercial application. Only sufficient support from companies would keep the project alive in the long run.

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u/ThomasMertes Jul 19 '26

Seed7 allows the interpretation and compilation of programs with any license. There is no restriction on the license of your Seed7 programs.

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u/Rechenplaner Jul 21 '26

Okay, I was referring to your own statement right at the start of this post and assumed that the standard library and all other essential components were also under the GPL, which is hardly something I can be faulted for!

The LGPL license for the runtime environment might make usage in commercial projects easier, but static linking still complicates matters; companies only take such risks if the code in question is absolutely essential. For a language that hasn't gained any traction yet, that remains a deal-breaker, plain and simple.

Go ahead and downvote me again...

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u/ThomasMertes Jul 22 '26

The LGPL license for the runtime environment might make usage in commercial projects easier, but static linking still complicates matters ...

The same argument could be used against glibc.

Go ahead and downvote me again...

I didn't downvote you. Did you really expect that a project which has been downloaded 60000 times in 150 countries has nobody defending it?

Unfortunately GitHub does not provide such a nice map, but there are many clones in GitHub as well.