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Re: possible licensing issues with some scsh source files

To: scsh@zurich.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: possible licensing issues with some scsh source files
From: Taylor Campbell <campbell@evdev.ath.cx>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:55:41 -0500

On Saturday, Nov 29, 2003, at 12:19 US/Eastern, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:19:33AM +0100, Martin Gasbichler wrote:

scsh-0.6.4/scheme/big/sort.scm :

;;; 2. Users of this software agree to make their best efforts (a) to return ;;; to the T Project at Yale any improvements or extensions that they make, ;;; so that these may be included in future releases; and (b) to inform
;;;    the T Project of noteworthy uses of this software.
;;; 3. All materials developed as a consequence of the use of this software ;;; shall duly acknowledge such use, in accordance with the usual standards
;;;    of acknowledging credit in academic research.

As far as I know, there is no longer a T project at yale so I guess we
would have to ask all the authors.

Why not just ditch that file entirely and replace it with Olin's SRFI
32 reference implementation?  It provides a lot more functionality
and doesn't have a restrictive licence.


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