[Gardeners] The Common LISP Road Block Manifesto

[Marco Antoniotti]

A second self-clarification.


On Dec 23, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Marco Antoniotti wrote:

> Just a clarification.
>
> On Dec 23, 2005, at 1:13 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote:
>
> 	...
>
>>
>> If the license you choose to release your code under has unnecessary
>> conditions or is any way legally vague, the risk posed by "guessing"
>> what would happen in a legal battle is simply not worth any possible
>> reward you would gain from using the code. This means that anyone who
>> wants to do something painfully simple like read system environment
>> variables is forced to reinvent the wheel by writing their own code
>> rather than just using the existing CLOCC/PORT code. The sad part is
>> the
>> developers of CLOCC/PORT (Sam Steingold and Marco Antoniotti) very
>> intentionally used the less restrictive LGPL rather than the GPL in
>> hopes of wide spread adoption without any license problems.
>> Unfortunately, things have not worked out as planed.
>
> CLOCC was the first attempt to provide a set of libraries for Common
> Lisp.

maybe this is too strong a statement.  CLOCC was the first attempt to 
create a repository of CL code in the post Sourceforge era.

Note that there are several sub projects in the CLOCC, although they 
may not be advertised.  E.g. the YTools suite by D. McDermott is in 
there.  It is a very interesting set of tools and approaches.

Cheers

Marco
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