Non-free file in scheme48 source emacs/cmulisp.el

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Hi,

I currently maintain scheme48 in Debian. I just wanted to inform you that there is one file in the source with an invariant clause inconsistent with scheme48's 3-clause BSD license.

emacs/cmulisp.el has a license that prohibits distribution for money:

;;; Copyright Olin Shivers (1988).
;;; Please imagine a long, tedious, legalistic 5-page gnu-style
copyright
;;; notice appearing here to the effect that you may use this code any
;;; way you like, as long as you don't charge money for it, remove this
;;; notice, or hold me liable for its results.

I was unable to contact Olin Shivers to get the license changed.[1]

Obviously you might not really care if this file is still in the sources since the intent of the license seems to suggest that it should be consistent with 3-clause BSD, but I just wanted to give you a heads-up in case you weren't aware of it and/or could perhaps contact Olin to ask him about the status of the license. For the Debian package I have rebuilt the tarball to remove this file.

Regards,
Daniel Moerner

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509860

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Daniel Moerner <[email protected]>
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