>>>>> "Niels" == Niels M�ller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Niels> Paul Emsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Niels> What is the current legal status of scsh?
BSD-style.
Niels> Last time I looked, both scheme48 and scsh used traditional
Niels> "academic" licenses that didn't allow any commercial
Niels> use. I.e. they're not free software by the DFSG-definition.
That was indeed the situation.
Niels> When I asked Olin Shiver about it, he said that he were
Niels> willing to change the scsh license but that he had more
Niels> important things to do than paperwork.
Like many of us :)
Niels> He also said that he had no control over the scheme48
Niels> license, but that there was hope that it would be improved.
It was. (There is also work underway by Gary Houston to port
scsh to guile).
Niels> This was some time ago, and I haven't stayed up to
Niels> date. Have things changed?
Thankfully and wonderfully, yes! (I think that it changed
with the 0.5.2 release). It is now part of the main pool.
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/scsh/
Cheers,
Paul.
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