Re: Lisp reader syntax and bootstrap

[Paul Eggert]

On 2023-07-16 19:22, Richard Stallman wrote:

>    > 
> https://github.com/simh/simh/commit/ce2adce632e1a22e6d76d4bf726d6b863373c550
>
> When I visit that URL I see two files created initially in that commit.
> It is not explicitly clear which text is the "disputed licensing clause".
> Does that consist of the text starting with line 32 in LICENSE.txt?

Yes.


> Anyway it is quite clear that that text makes the license nonfree.
>
> Can you tell me how to contact the develoers of Open SIMH?

Contact instructions are here:

https://opensimh.org/contacts/

The email address is <simh@groups.io>; I don't know whether one must be 
a list member to send email to the list.

PS. Their mailing list's most recent post was about the IBM 1620, which 
if you'll recall had variable-precision decimal floating point. Total 
memory was at most 20,000 decimal digits (they used a form of BCD so 
this was equivalent to 120,000 bits). I hope nobody tries to port Emacs 
to an IBM 1620....