Hi,
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? :-)
Then the only barriers between slime and main would be:
-swank-ecl.lisp: we could remove this too, but I would prefer to have it with _some_ licence - doc/Makefile HACKING NEWS PROBLEMS README ChangeLog someone just has to declare then PD?
Groetjes, Peter
Peter Van Eynde pvaneynd@debian.org 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.
Then the only barriers between slime and main would be:
-swank-ecl.lisp: we could remove this too, but I would prefer to have it with _some_ licence
- 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?
How is this normally done? I don't remember seeing license declarations inside ChangeLog or NEWS files.
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
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