[Gardeners] Mangling the hyperspec

[Marco Antoniotti]

On Dec 30, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Troels Henriksen wrote:

> tin gherdanarra <tinman31337 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Anybody in the know here?
>
> I am not a lawyer, and I have not employed the service of one, but I
> suspect that LispWorks has. Their copy of the HyperSpec should have
> a legally correct license clause:
>
> http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/Help.htm#Legal
>
> Unfortunately, the license includes two highly problematic clauses:
>
> * Permissions related to performance and to creation of derivative
>   works are expressly NOT granted.
> * Permission to make modified copies is expressly NOT granted.
>
> So while I agree with you that an updated, annotateable HyperSpec
> (perhaps with cross-implementation compatibility notes) would be a
> great boon to the community, I'm afraid such a thing will not happen,

There are two issues here.

(1) Updating the CLHS (meaning the ANSI standard etc etc)
(2) Annotating the CLHS (meaning making comments on it and stashing 
them "elsewhere", quotes mandatory)

While (1) is definitively encumbered - something I kind of regard as a 
good thing - I don't see how (2) is encumbered and in what ways.

Cheers

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