From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-07-26T15:58:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Lisp on Lines

Hello Mark,

MJR> "luke" <lduncalfe@eml.nope> writes:
>>Thanks Dave for the interesting post. Would these problems be solved if
>>Common Lisp went open source?

>>I noticed a post on a site

>>http://lemonodor.com/archives/000671.html

>>that suggests there are some promising dialects of Lisp that are open
>>source, but currently aren't as rich as, say Common Lisp.

MJR> Huh?  Is GNU Common Lisp not actually an implementation of Common Lisp?
MJR> GCL is not only open source, it's Free Software(TM) in the
MJR> Richard Stallman-approved sense.

Here, in an image based system like LISP, free in the GPL sense is a very very
bad idea. Only BSD image based systems are useable for commercial
applications. This is a fundamental difference to the gcc compiler
where the GPL makes sense.


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