Re: possible licensing issues with some scsh source files
Scripsit Barak Pearlmutter <barak@cs.may.ie>
> This clause is moot, because "The T Project at Yale" has not existed
> for the last fifteen years.
I grabbed the source and looked at it. As Daniel wrote, there are
three files with this clause in them.
The one that references the T Project implements an utility function
that sorts a list given a comparison operator. It could be
reimplemented from scratch in a few hours, which might even be faster
than trying to track down the original authors.
Two other files reference "the MIT Scheme project" in a similar way.
These are about three thousand lines in total, with comments that
indicate that they have been very heavily modified since they left
MIT. No names of individual original-authors-at-MIT are given.
MIT Scheme, in the mean time, has evolved into MIT/GNU Scheme, but
still seems to be recognizeable as the project those licenses refer
to. Considering the GNU-ness of MIT/GNU Scheme (and also the fact that
its primary author turns out to be a Debian Developer), it is quite
probable that the current MIT/GNU Scheme project will waive their
right to receive postcards about character and string primitives in
scsh. A request for this should ideally go through Olin Shivers,
though.
--
Henning Makholm "... and that Greek, Thucydides"
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