Re: License for Slime
Red Daly <[email protected]> Mon, 14 May 2018 17:25:14 -0700
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Thanks for the replies. The idea of using a license for new code might indeed help. I now have some questions out to the open source team here, and I will reply when they get back to me. For some background reading on public domain software from OSI, I found this page informative: https://opensource.org/faq#public-domain On May 14, 2018 8:23 AM, "Luís Oliveira" <[email protected]> wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 3:23 PM Stelian Ionescu <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe you don't necessarily need to change the licence of existing code. > Just like with the legacy code from Spice Lisp and CMUCL which was public > domain, it should be enough to state that the licence for new code is MIT and > over time the code base would become a mixture, just like SBCL. I guess this > should be ok to appease lawyers. I wouldn't have a problem with that. Would it help, Red? -- Luís Oliveira http://kerno.org/~luis/