License terms for ITERATE

[Robert P. Goldman]

On 7/8/16 Jul 8 -1:28 PM, Robert P. Goldman wrote:
> ITERATE has a GPL license.  Does that mean that the developers intend
> that any system using ITERATE must, itself, be GPL?
> 
> I am not certain what follows from GPL licensing, since Lisp code isn't
> linked with library code. But I fear it might, or might require some
> cumbersome expedient like forcing people who distribute non-GPL code to
> hand off the ITERATE code and require recipients to compile it in
> themselves.
> 
> Is there any chance that this could be offered under LLGPL or some
> less-restrictive license?
> 
> Thanks,
> r
> 

Actually, I got the licensing status wrong.  It looks like ONLY
gendocs.sh is GPL, the docs/Makefile is BSD, and the lisp code is MIT.

Wow!

Any chance we could make everything MIT licensed?  Also, maybe adding
:license "MIT" to iterate.asd would be nice.

thanks,
r