On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:45:16 -0500, Marco Antoniotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just a clarification. > >On Dec 23, 2005, at 1:13 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: > > ... > >> >> If the license you choose to release your code under has unnecessary >> conditions or is any way legally vague, the risk posed by "guessing" >> what would happen in a legal battle is simply not worth any possible >> reward you would gain from using the code. This means that anyone who >> wants to do something painfully simple like read system environment >> variables is forced to reinvent the wheel by writing their own code >> rather than just using the existing CLOCC/PORT code. The sad part is >> the >> developers of CLOCC/PORT (Sam Steingold and Marco Antoniotti) very >> intentionally used the less restrictive LGPL rather than the GPL in >> hopes of wide spread adoption without any license problems. >> Unfortunately, things have not worked out as planed. > >CLOCC was the first attempt to provide a set of libraries for Common >Lisp. Sam Steingold and Bruno Haible were the first movers and >provided the core CLOCC/PORT code. They chose GPL/LGPL for it. I >joined immediately and took care of contacting Mark Kantrowitz to >"liberate" MK:DEFSYSTEM (which is released under its own license which >is now DFSG compliant). Then I added some libraries to the CLOCC under >various licenses. CL-ENVIRONMENT and my old queues stuff. >(Incidentally, CL-ENVIRONMENT is something I would like to advertise). > >For the other libraries I maintain (mostly now on common-lisp.net: >DEFINER, CL-ENUMERATIONS, CL-UNIFICATION, NAMES-AND-PATHS) and for >those I am writing I usually choose a Berkeley style license, unless my >job demands otherwise. > >Cheers Marco, I hope you, Sam, Bruno and all the others who have contributed to CLOCC were not offended by my statements regarding licensing. I tried to be as fair as I possibly could in explaining cause and effect of licensing decisions but it's a very touchy subject for a lot of people. Merry Christmas! kind regards, jcr _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
