Nikodemus, Erik, and Mario,
Everyone brought up a good point regarding the legalities of the
distribution, I'll actually refer this to my legal guy but I don't see
this as a problem.
For instance, if someone copied the ISO and put it on Common-Lisp.net,
that would clearly be a violation. However, this is a living breathing
project that is currently well over a year old now. We have many plans
and directons to take the CD which means that it's not something I'm
going to drop it on your site then forget about. I'll be needing to
update the documentation, web-page and ISO image anywhere between a
bi-weekly to monthly basis. I'd also like to count the downloads and
keep in touch with users via mailing lists etc.
With that much artistic control at my disposal, the relationship between
myself/LispNYC and Common-Lisp.net becomes one of collaberation and
resource sharing rather than Common-Lisp.net simply 'distributing' it.
I've attached the CD license for your pleasure, if there is anything
that concerns you about it I'd be happy to modify it. ...for instance I
can think of adding Common-Lisp.net (or a similiar clause) falling under
the umbrella of liability.
FYI, although the license sounds like it expects the world to end, it is
a standard format for things like compliations. Also the CD is based on
the STABLE version of Knoppix. Interesting enough, both Nils Magnus and
Klaus Knopper attended LinuxWorld AND the MuSIG group of LispNYC (yes,
they are Lisp fans and musicians) where we talked shop, swapped pointers
and doused my fears of a live CD actually breaking hardware.
Thanks,
- Heow
Hi there,
I'd like to register a project with common-lisp.net, if possible. I am a
beginner\hobbyist programmer, and I've been fiddling with lisp for some
time, but I'd like to get a projects of some sorts started so I can actually
learn something and hopefully contribute to the community :)
Name: Dan Beauchesne
Project Description: Console RPG written in Common Lisp. I would like it to
be very story driven, or at least moreso than current console RPG's.
Short term goals: basic functions one would find in an average text-rpg (ie.
battle, movement, armor\weapons\items)
Long term goals: Implementation of storyline which directly affects the
player; team based battle engine with friendly NPC's
Project Name: Innen
Project Members: Just me, for now.
License: BSD
Thanks for your consideration,
-Dan Beauchesne
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full name:
mikel evins
description of project:
Clotho is a project to build a Lisp development environment for Mac OS
X. The project's goal is to build an IDE that is excellent both by
traditional Lisp-programming standards and by current Mac OS X
programming standards. As an excellent Lisp environment it will provide
multiple listeners, image-dumping, interactive inspectors, stepper, and
debuggers, and integrated documentation features. As an excellent Mac
OS X IDE it will support access to Objective C classes and methods,
automatic construction of proper application bundles, integration with
Services, the Pasteboard, and other features of the Cocoa application
frameworks, resource-based UI construction, and easy access to Apple's
developer documentation.
Clotho is associated with the mac-lisp-ide mailing list hosted at
common-lisp.net.
members:
mikel evins (mikel(a)evins.net)
Brian Mastenbrook (bmastenb(a)cs.indiana.edu)
name of project:
clotho
license:
LLGPL
--me