Re: [Ilisp-devel] ILISP License Status.

Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]> writes:

> I just received a mail from a friend who is putting together a special
> Linux distribution which will contain Free Software Only.  He says
> that they will not be able to include ILISP into it.

This is an issue for Debian as well: ilisp is only available in the
non-free section.  It would be great to have this cleared up.

> I am inclined to send out a message to c.l.l. and the (X)Emacs groups
> announcing the intention to move the code under the LGPL and see if
> any of the original authors have strong objections.  If not, I propose
> to put the code under the LGPL.
>
> Any opinions regard this?

Looking at the existing COPYING file (primarily the "Any work
distributed or published ..." clause) it seems to me that GPL would be
a closer match for the terms there than LGPL, for what that's worth.
But I also note the bit where it says -

| ILISP if freely redistributable. Eventually it may become part of GNU
| Emacs and it will in that case comply with the GPL.

Perhaps you could get the Emacs people to include it in Emacs so that
it automatically gets relicensed? :-)


-dan

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