licensing problem with "On Lisp" and code from a github gist

licensing problem with "On Lisp" and code from a github gist

[Giovanni Biscuolo]

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Hi,

we have a couple of issues with a new proposed interesting package:
Weir, written in Common Lisp.

This is the proposed patch:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/47943

There are a couple of problems:

1. the code from the book "On Lisp" by Paul Graham is not free software
(AFAIU): please any Common Lisp programmes can tell us (ehrm, upstream
actually) if the "On Lisp" code has been "superseded" by some proper cl
library?

2. the code from this gist is included upstream:
The code referenced in 3. is suggested by lispm in
https://gist.github.com/inconvergent/8b6ccfbde4fca7844c1962082ef07a7e
and AFAIU is not a trivial patch and the license is not stated, so
should be "Full Copyright".

Please see the issue tracker for details.

WDYT?

Thanks, Giovanni.

-- 
Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures

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Re: licensing problem with "On Lisp" and code from a github gist

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Hi,

A quick search got me this:

https://github.com/DalekBaldwin/on-lisp/blob/master/on-lisp.asd

So it seems that the license is an informal

> As long as you tell people it's modified and link to the original,
> that's fine.  --pg

Not sure what to make of it.

I've heard of a few libraries that implement some "On Lisp" algorithms,
but I suppose we would need to look in details.

Maybe ask on r/lisp or r/common_lisp.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: licensing problem with "On Lisp" and code from a github gist

[Giovanni Biscuolo]

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Hi Pierre,

thank you for your heads up!

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> A quick search got me this:
>
> https://github.com/DalekBaldwin/on-lisp/blob/master/on-lisp.asd
>
> So it seems that the license is an informal

Yes, the same it's for Weir (bug#47943), informal non-free license

[...]

> Not sure what to make of it.
>
> I've heard of a few libraries that implement some "On Lisp" algorithms,
> but I suppose we would need to look in details.
>
> Maybe ask on r/lisp or r/common_lisp.

Or maybe better on licensing@fsf.org

Thanks! Giovanni

-- 
Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures

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