> ;;; Written by Mark Kantrowitz, School of Computer Science, > ;;; Carnegie Mellon University, October 1989. > > ;;; Copyright (c) 1989-95 by Mark Kantrowitz. All rights reserved. > > ;;; Use and copying of this software and preparation of derivative works > ;;; based upon this software are permitted, so long as the following > ;;; conditions are met: > ;;; o no fees or compensation are charged for use, copies, or > ;;; access to this software > ;;; o this copyright notice is included intact. > ;;; This software is made available AS IS, and no warranty is made about > ;;; the software or its performance. > > This looks pretty non-free right?
Indeed, the "no fees or compensation" clause makes it so. The next license has several strange clauses: > However, all academic or commercial publication rights for CL-HTTP server in > any form are hereby reserved. I have no idea what this means. > Additionally, all rights are reserved to any derivative works based on the > Lisp source code in the CL-HTTP distribution, in particular but not limited to > any automatic or manual translation of the source code into other computer > languages or executables. This makes the Lisp code non-free. I have no idea why they want to forbid compilation of their code. > In the meantime, the right to change this license for CL-HTTP in anyway at > anytime is hereby reserved, any prior clauses notwithstanding. This also makes it non-free in my book, but the DFSG is not clear about it. As far as I'm concerned it makes the entire license meaningless; there's nothing you can do with the code that they cannot revoke whenever they feel like it. > It looks free, right? Not to me. Richard Braakman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
