From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-07-27T12:55:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Lisp on Lines

On 7/25/05, Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote:
> 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.

What do you mean by "image based system"?  And what does that have to
do with the GPL?