Olin Shivers has agreed that emacs/cmulisp.el can be distributed without the no-ads clause, in message:
<qijr5xmjtgs.wl%shiv...@mongkok.dyndns.org> on scheme-48-b...@s48.org I will no longer repack the upstream tarball in the next release of scheme48. The full content of the message follows: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Olin Shivers <shiv...@mongkok.dyndns.org> Date: Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:17 PM Subject: Re: Non-free file in scheme48 source emacs/cmulisp.el To: dmoer...@gmail.com Cc: scheme-48-b...@s48.org At Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:42:49 +0200, dmoer...@gmail.com wrote:
I currently maintain scheme48 in Debian. I just wanted to inform you that there is one file in the source with an invariant clause inconsistent with scheme48's 3-clause BSD license. emacs/cmulisp.el has a license that prohibits distribution for money: ;;; Copyright Olin Shivers (1988). ;;; Please imagine a long, tedious, legalistic 5-page gnu-style copyright ;;; notice appearing here to the effect that you may use this code any ;;; way you like, as long as you don't charge money for it, remove this ;;; notice, or hold me liable for its results. I was unable to contact Olin Shivers to get the license changed.[1] Obviously you might not really care if this file is still in the sources since the intent of the license seems to suggest that it should be consistent with 3-clause BSD, but I just wanted to give you a heads-up in case you weren't aware of it and/or could perhaps contact Olin to ask him about the status of the license. For the Debian package I have rebuilt the tarball to remove this file.
I'm perfectly happy for you to distribute that code under the Debian-approved license. As Jonathan remarked, the original versions of these modes (comint, shell, etc.) that I wrote in the 80's got messed up when the Gnu folks folded it into gnu-emacs, at the direction of RMS. Alas. -Olin -- Daniel Moerner <dmoer...@gmail.com>
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