Re: [clisp-list] ap5 licensing

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Don Cohen wrote:
>  > ap5 comes with no license, so we cannot distribute it anyway.
> My view is that it's public domain.  

who wrote it?
you did?
any other contributors?

> My impression is that such views can always be challenged in court
> and that there's no other way to test them.

we do not want to go to court to find out we did something wrong.
a simple "due diligence" should suffice here.

> Other than the the possible question of whether 
> I have any right to distribute it at all, of course.

that's the point :-)
who wrote it?
what's the history?

BTW, all these question should be answered on the web page...

>  > it also comes with its own loop implementation. why?
> Because it has to extend loop to support
>  (loop for (x y z) s.t. <wff> ...)
> The loop extension mechanism is not standardized.  Therefore the
> most portable way of doing this was to make my own extension of the
> MIT loop macro -- Ah, there's a license.
> I assume that (in ansi-loo.lsp) is no obstacle.

not at all.
we already distribute mit loop with mit clx.