hi,
I have changed the license statement in SLIME's README. it used to be:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ SLIME is free software. The source files are licensed separately for maximum compatibility with their host environment, for example slime.el is GPL and swank-cmucl.lisp is public domain. See the source files for more details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is now this:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ SLIME is free software. All files, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are public domain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
So if you've contributed code to SLIME and haven't supplied a copyright statement your code is now public domain. If you have an issue with this please bring it up asap.
For what it's worth the only files which were missing a copyright statement were swank-ecl.lisp, doc/Makefile, HACKING, NEWS, PROBLEMS and README. juan jose garcia (the original author of swank-ecl.lisp) is ok with the change so I don't think anyone should be surprised be this change.
Marco Baringer mb@bese.it writes:
diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.961 slime/ChangeLog:1.962
[...]
- Change license statement to say that all files without an explicit
- copyright notice are public domain. This change will allow SLIME
- to moved out of debian's nonfree tree.
IIRC the main reason for SLIME being considered non-free is the licence of xref.lisp, in particular
Any work distributed or published that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of this software or any part thereof is subject to the terms of this agreement.
See
http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/thread=3875/force_load=t/...
Wolfgang
Is it actually the case that only CLISP uses XREF (as swank- loader.lisp seems to indicate)? If so, perhaps this would help simplifying the licensing...
On Oct 4, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
Marco Baringer mb@bese.it writes:
diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.961 slime/ChangeLog:1.962
[...]
- Change license statement to say that all files without an explicit
- copyright notice are public domain. This change will allow SLIME
- to moved out of debian's nonfree tree.
IIRC the main reason for SLIME being considered non-free is the licence of xref.lisp, in particular
Any work distributed or published that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of this software or any part thereof is subject to the terms of this agreement.See
http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/thread=3875/ force_load=t/focus=4140
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Hello!
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:10:51 +0200, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
IIRC the main reason for SLIME being considered non-free is the licence of xref.lisp, in particular
Any work distributed or published that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of this software or any part thereof is subject to the terms of this agreement.
FYI, Debian doesn't include xref.lisp anymore, as you can see from the Debian changelog [1]: ===== slime (1:20060306-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream version. * Removed xref.lisp file.
-- Peter Van Eynde pvaneynd@debian.org Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:37:41 +0100 =====
The last references to xref.lisp was removed with the next upload [2]: ===== slime (1:20060328-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream * removed xref.lisp from swank.asd for clisp (Closes: #359215)
-- Peter Van Eynde pvaneynd@debian.org Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:30:19 +0200 =====
So, xref.lisp is no more a problem.
Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
Footnotes: [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/s/slime/slime_20060925-1... [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=yes&bug=359215
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