[admin] Lisp Education CD as ISO project

Mario Mommer mommer at igpm.rwth-aachen.de
Fri Jan 30 08:22:55 UTC 2004


Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola at cc.hut.fi> writes:
> > LispNYC.org has created a free self-booting Lisp Education CD which
> 
> This sounds way cool!

Indeed!

> I see. Mailing list(s) should be no problem, but I'm a bit unclear on
> what else you would like to have?
> 
> > Thus only LispNYC.org, the ALU and myself can legally distribute it.
> 
> Would what about ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/.../lispnyc-cd/? Would
> that count as LispNYC distributing it?
> 
> If so, *I* think (remains to see how others perceive this) that we could
> set you up for FTP and mailing lists despite the license.

The only thing that bothers me is the legal part. It is hard to see how
putting it in our ftp qualifies as lispNYC distributing it.

I say, mailing lists & web page: no problem.

FTP : only if we can be reasonably sure that we are not going to have
a problem. What means reasonably sure? Good question.

Regards,
        Mario.





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