Peter Van Eynde pvaneynd@debian.org writes:
I contacted him and he is willing to allow xref to be distributed with slime, but is not willing to change the licence as he did for MK:DEFSYSTEM.
This is not 'free enough' for Debian so either we have to put slime into non-free or replace xref.lisp. Or a more able person could talk to him ;-).
I also emailed Mark and I just got the same response. He is happy with the idea of our bundling xref.lisp but he hasn't released it in a way that's suitable for Debian.
So we have three competing goals:
- Getting SLIME into debian proper. - Preventing Debian & non-Debian SLIME from having different features. - Making cross-referencing work out-of-the-box for CLISP users.
I rank them in the order listed and agree with Peter's suggestion that we stop bundling xref.lisp and just leave hooks for it instead. I don't like removing useful features but I'd like to see a full SLIME in Debian for easy access by newbies.
Major objections?
Cheers, Luke
P.S. Witness the invincible arm of Debian sending programs with awkward licenses hurtling into limbo! *WHOOSH*!