Re: Important: ILISP License Change Questionnaire

Daniel Barlow <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.ilisp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Reini Urban <[email protected]> writes:

>> Question 3: - DO YOU OBJECT TO HAVING ANY COPYRIGHTS THAT YOU OWN IN
>> THE ILISP
>> - PROJECT BEING REASSIGNED TO THE FREE SOFTWARE FEDERATION? -
>> (BENEFITS OF REASSIGNMENT CAN BE FOUND FOUND AT THE URL
>> -  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html AND ARE REPRODUCED IN
>> -  APPENDIX 3)
>
> Yes. I prefer the ilisp license (and the XEmacs license over the GPL).
> See Q2.

The XEmacs license _is_ the GPL, at least according to their web site.
Given that the project started life as a fork of the FSF's Emacs, it's
hard to see how they could have changed this.

I don't wish to start a flamewar over the merits of copyright
assignment, about which people may have legitimate differences, but I
do think it's important to be clear that we're talking about copyright
assignment and not about the license itself.

If indeed we _are_ talking about copyright assignment...


-dan

-- 

  http://ww.telent.net/cliki/ - Link farm for free CL-on-Unix resources 


-------------------------------------------------------
This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing 
your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte 
Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.