[slime-devel] Re: COPYRIGHT change - slime contributors please read this

[Gary King]

Is it actually the case that only CLISP uses XREF (as swank- 
loader.lisp seems to indicate)? If so, perhaps this would help  
simplifying the licensing...

On Oct 4, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:

> Marco Baringer <mb at bese.it> writes:
>
>> diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.961 slime/ChangeLog:1.962
> [...]
>> +	Change license statement to say that all files without an explicit
>> +	copyright notice are public domain. This change will allow SLIME
>> +	to moved out of debian's nonfree tree.
>
> IIRC the main reason for SLIME being considered non-free is the
> licence of xref.lisp, in particular
>
>         Any work distributed or published that in whole or in part
>         contains or is a derivative of this software or any part
>         thereof is subject to the terms of this agreement.
>
> See
>
> http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/thread=3875/ 
> force_load=t/focus=4140
>
> Wolfgang
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