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Re: [Gcl-devel] ["Gordon Shaw Novak"<address@hidden>]Re:GCLgetting slush


From: Camm Maguire
Subject: Re: [Gcl-devel] ["Gordon Shaw Novak"<address@hidden>]Re:GCLgetting slushy ...
Date: 25 Feb 2004 10:39:52 -0500
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Greetings!

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Camm.
> 
> | We should probably instead default to
> |
> | GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  (2.6.1) Fri Feb 20 16:31:57 UTC 2004
> | GCL source licensed under GNU Library General Public License
> | This binary licensed under the GPL due to the inclusion of
> | the following external GPL'ed features: unexec, libbfd, readline
> | Modifications of this banner must retain notice of a compatible license
> | Dedicated to the memory of W. Schelter
> |
> | This list could be generated from elements in the *features* list put
> | in at compile time depending on the selected options.
> |
> | Thoughts, (but not flames :-)) most appreciated.
> 
> I think that this is a sensible approach except that the part about the
> source should perhaps read:
> 
> "GCL source licensed under GNU Library General Public License except for
> unexec, libbfd and readline which are under GNU General Public License."
> 
> The source licencing statement should not be tied to the features list as
> the source tree contains all components as distributed.
> 

OK, while I agree with this, it has also made clear the other poster's
point that it is simply too long.  Can anyone think of some accurate
terse phraseology that will fit into two lines max?  How about

Source License: LGPL(GCL), GPL(unexec,bfd)
Binary License: GPL -- GPL'ed external components (unexec,bfd,readline)

> I also would like to see, for the sake of convenience, the version displayed
> as "2.6.1 ANSI" or "2.6.1 CLtL1" depending on the value of the configure.in
> variable @CLSTANDARD@ which is already being used in the Windows installer
> script to generate differentiable package names.

Agreed.  Will do this, but how about tying to :ansi-cl in *features*?



> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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