From: Reini U. <ru...@x-...> - 2002-11-18 18:14:27
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il...@b9... schrieb: > Dear Potential ILISP Contributor, > > You are receiving this message because of the possibility that you > have contributed to the ILISP project. If you have not contributed to > the ILISP project, please disregard this message. > > If you have contributed to ILISP project, please read on. > > Some ILISP developers have expressed a desire for the ILISP source > code to be licensed more liberally. As it stands, ILISP's license is > non-free by the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)item 1 > (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines). This limits the > areas where ILISP can be used. ILISP's current license is reproduced > in Appendix 1 in this message. > > This posting is a "best faith attempt" to determine if there are any > ILISP contributors who object to a more free license for ILISP. As > such, this message is being sent via e-mail to last known e-mail > address of ILISP contributors, ILISP mail lists, and the > comp.lang.lisp newsgroup. The distribution list is in Appendix 4. > > The first goal will be to change ILISP's license to the GNU General > Public License (Appendix 2). If there are no objections to that, then > another goal will be to have copyrights in the ILISP project be > reassigned to the Free Software Federation (Appendix 3). At this > point, ILISP can then be a standard part of GNU Emacs. However, if > there are objections to these changes, then a secondary goal will be > to remove a restrictive clause that is non-DFSG compliant (see > question 4). > > If there are no objections sent via e-mail to the below address by > December 20, 2002, then the ILISP license will be changed. If > objections to a license change exists, then the extent of the > copyrighted material owned by such people with objections will be > determined. Such material may be rewritten by an entity willing to > have their contribution more liberally licensed. > > The questions follow. Even you if do not object to a change of ILISP's > license, please respond to this posting so that your lack of objection > can be documented. Please respond via to e-mail to the e-mail address > il...@b9... > > Question 1: > - HAVE YOU AUTHORED ANY MATERIAL IN THE ILISP SOURCE CODE OR DOCUMENTATION? Yes, Corman Lisp support and some cygwin and ild menu functions. > Question 2: > - DO YOU OBJECT TO ILISP's LICENSE BEING CHANGED TO THE GNU GENERAL > - PUBLIC LICENSE (APPENDIX 2). Yes. It's more illiberal than the current one. See Q4. rms' opinion on "non-free" for example restricts the usage of emodules or the ffi as it is currently used in the gtk-emacs port. I need that for my own emacs-ffi's and dll's. > Question 3: > - DO YOU OBJECT TO HAVING ANY COPYRIGHTS THAT YOU OWN IN THE ILISP > - PROJECT BEING REASSIGNED TO THE FREE SOFTWARE FEDERATION? > - (BENEFITS OF REASSIGNMENT CAN BE FOUND FOUND AT THE URL > - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html AND ARE REPRODUCED IN > - APPENDIX 3) Yes. I prefer the ilisp license (and the XEmacs license over the GPL). See Q2. > Question 4: > - DO YOU OBJECT TO ILISP's LICENSE BEING MODIFIED TO REMOVE THE FOLLOWING > - CLAUSE? > o No fees or compensation are charged for use, copies, or > access to this software. You may charge a nominal > distribution fee for the physical act of transferring a > copy, but you may not charge for the program itself. No. I prefer to go this way just to please the debian folks. But it's silly to remove the compensation clause entirely. > Question 5: > - IF YOUR ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 2 AND 4 ARE "YES", PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH > - AREAS OF THE ILISP PROJECT HAS MATERIAL FOR WHICH YOU OWN A > - COPYRIGHT. (THIS SHOULD INCLUDE FILE NAMES, FUNCTION NAMES, AND > - POSSIBLY GENERAL DESIGN COPYRIGHTS THAT YOU MAY OWN.) cormanlisp.lisp, ilisp-ccl.el, ilisp-cl-easy-menu.el: (ilisp-insert-menu), defconst ilisp-ild-easy-menu, (ilisp-redefine-menu) ilisp-hi.el: (file-name-hack) > Question 6: > - WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME AND BEST E-MAIL ADDRESS TO CONTACT YOU IF THERE ARE FURTHER > - ISSUES WITH ILISP'S LICENSE. THIS MAY INCLUDE SENDING YOU FORMS FOR > - REASSIGNING YOUR COPYRIGHTS TO THE FREE SOFTWARE FEDERATION. Reini Urban <ru...@x-...> -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ |