LispNYC.org has created a free self-booting Lisp Education CD which
This sounds way cool!
Anyway, the problem is that LispNYC is running on DSL and cannot host an ISO, which is why I'd like to include it on common-lisp.net. We expect anywhere between 2 and 10 downloads per week (currently a steady 3 requests per week) and I'd also be setting up a mailing list etc.
But due to the fact that there exists within the CD:
- copyrighted software (Allegro CL and LispWorks)
- copyrighted work (Successful Lisp, OnLisp)
and the fact that various authors specifically request that:
- they retain copyright to their work
- it not enter the 'public domain'
- the CD remain free of charge
...the license is unique in that the CD expressively remains free (as in without cost) yet not fall into the public domain or under a different license. This of course dose not preclude some of the seperate works falling under a more lenient license.
I see. Mailing list(s) should be no problem, but I'm a bit unclear on what else you would like to have?
Thus only LispNYC.org, the ALU and myself can legally distribute it.
Would what about ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/.../lispnyc-cd/? Would that count as LispNYC distributing it?
If so, *I* think (remains to see how others perceive this) that we could set you up for FTP and mailing lists despite the license.
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus Siivola
PS. As an administrative aside, I still think we should have ftp look something like this:
pub/
projects/... as is
extra/... Wierd special cases like the LispNYC CD that aren't projects, but still need FTP upload.
cclan/... We should become a CCLAN node.
cclan-incoming/...
Public uploads for CCLAN stuff, gets pushed to cclan/ if signatures match the previous package (or maybe a list of authorized sigs for that package).
-ns