Re: License for Slime
Luís Oliveira <[email protected]> Mon, 14 May 2018 13:57:15 +0100
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On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 3:43 PM Red Daly <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to contribute some code to the project, but my employer (Google) will only permit you to do so if the project is licensed under an OSI-approved license (https://opensource.org/licenses). I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that "public domain" code is more complex legally than code released under one of the OSI licenses. "SBCL [is] a mixture of BSD-style (for a few subsystems) and public domain (for the rest of the system)" and Google contributes to that project. Perhaps you can point them to that case? Hope that helps. I'm not a lawyer either; I have no idea what would be required to change SLIME's license. Cheers, -- Luís Oliveira http://kerno.org/~luis/