[admin] Account Request

[Nikodemus Siivola]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Elliott Slaughter
<elliottslaughter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, I'm wondering what licensing requirements common-lisp.net puts
> on projects its hosts. If I create a repository with my account, will
> that be public to the internet? If it is, then I assume I need some
> sort of license (even if I don't think my project is far enough along
> that anyone else would want to contribute)... so what would you
> recommend?
>
> Since I happen know you work for Franz as well, could you tell me if
> there are any additional licensing constraints when working on a
> project which happens to only run on ACL? That is, the current
> iteration of my project uses AllegroCache and thus can't run on any
> other Lisp system. Does this influence what licenses I can use with my
> project?

Huh, it seems licence requirements have vanished from the clnet
website -- or maybe they never ended up there in the first place, not
sure.

At any rate, Common-Lisp.net has since it's inception been open to all
open source / free software projects building on Common Lisp. No
implemention specific restrictions. That said, clnet is for *public*
code. If you use clnet to store your personal code without releasing
it into the open, that's not in the spirit of the service provided.

My *biased* recommendation is the MIT licence
<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>, but whatever
suits *your* needs is fine: in the absence of a public notice on the
clnet site, assume that any license which fulfills DFSG
<http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines> is fine.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus, not a clnet admin anymore, but I still think I know
this stuff well enough