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Jim Blandy writes:
>
> The Scheme48 license isn't Open Source because it requires you to give
> the authors notice for commercial use. In a business context, where
> you're trying to keep things secret until their release, this could be
> annoying. I think the FSF would say this isn't quite Free software
> either.
It's semi-free.
>
> Note that SCSH just inherited its license from Scheme48. I know Olin
> is very much in favor of free software, and I'd bet he'd entertain the
> notion of releasing the SCSH code (considered separately from the
> Scheme48 code also included in the SCSH distribution) under the GPL as
> well.
>
Does scsh take nontrivial code from scheme48, thus making it a derived work?
Btw I originally mentioned Bevan's bawk package for r4rs in this thread.
I was now able to contact Bevan and he allows to use, modify and redistribute
it in any way, expecting an informal acknowledgement.
A. Jaffer also wrote an interface from bevan's packages for slib.
Klaus Schilling