Luke Gorrie <luke <at> synap.se> writes:
Alceste Scalas noticed that the problematic xref.lisp file is only used by clisp, so removing it becomes a possibility. It would be painfull for the clisp hackers, but who needs xref anyway?
This would be a bit of a pity just because it's a nice module.
I know, but there is also the small matter of the licence 'infecting' the remainder of slime.
- doc/Makefile HACKING NEWS PROBLEMS README ChangeLog
someone just has to declare then PD?
Can we make this declaration in e.g. the README or a COPYING file?
Correct.
How is this normally done? I don't remember seeing license declarations inside ChangeLog or NEWS files.
In general there is a licence that covers the whole thing, with possible exceptions. Slime has _no_ general licence, but only exceptions.
This forces you to declare the licence of all parts. It is a big pain in the ***.
Then there is the dubious nature of ChangeLog which is of mixed licence?
Groetjes, Peter