[slime-devel] Slime license annoyances

Martin Simmons martin at lispworks.com
Wed Aug 10 15:07:20 UTC 2005


>>>>> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 15:15:47 +0200, Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd at debian.org> said:

  Peter> I just got a reject from ftpmaster (the person, not that server) for the slime
  Peter> package because some of a stupid packaging error on my part and because the
  Peter> readme says that there is no general license for the package and that you
  Peter> should check all files individualy. When you do that you see that:


  Peter> doc/texinfo-tabulate.awk
  Peter> present.lisp
  Peter> swank-ecl.lisp
  Peter> swank-source-file-cache.lisp
  Peter> swank-source-path-parser.lisp
  Peter> swank.asd
  Peter> mkdist.sh
  Peter> test-all.sh
  Peter> test.sh

  Peter> have no license information.


  Peter> nregex.lisp has a (sort-of) licence without permission to distribute or
  Peter> anything.

  Peter> Could you clear these problems up?

Does it also matter that some files are GPL and others are public domain?

__Martin



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