Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
CL-PDF is under BSD-style license, and mod_lisp under Apache License, right?
No mod_lisp is also under a BSD style licence
For them at least, I definitely approve.
I'm under the impression that you're not distributing the source to cl-typesetting yet: this makes hosting a mailing list for it at Common-lisp.net slightly controversial. However, since I think there is a clear intent to release it, I approve.
Hum... If you are Open Source only for mailing lists you should say so.
By the by, are you *sure* you want just mailing lists, and not full project hosting?
For now yes, I prefer to play with my own servers with my own tools. But I could at least add a project page if you want.
The point made by some folks on cll is quite true: giving people early access to source is much likelier to bring contributors -- especially giving them CVS/SVN/Arch access as opposed to just tarballs.
I've seen this but it's what I have done with mod_lisp and cl-pdf and the users/contributors ratio is a fairly good approximation of 0. :( Releasing software takes time, you get lots of emails asking for support, etc... And time is the resource I'm missing the most! So I prefer to work on cl-typesetting to release it only when it's usable by an average user. So it's not that I'm against releasing it it's just that I don't think the advantages would be so great.
BTW I'm ok to discuss this on a suitable place if c.l.l is not the good one. (or by email)
Cheers,
Marc
BTW my reply to Nikodemus bounced:
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