Ole Rohne wrote:
> Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
>
>
>>3. It's just another Lisp, along with GCL etc to support.
>>Do it if you want to.
>>
>
> If anybody with a real Allegro license compiles maxima to produce a
> Windows image, I'm sure somebody else with an interest in maxima on
> that platform will download the free version from Franz and find out
> what happens when he hits the 18 MB heap limit:-)
My assumption is that the person would not download the free version from
Franz, but a different (also free) version specifically for support
of Maxima, and perhaps with all of Maxima included. I think it would
have to be less restrictive in various ways than the usual free
version. I think that what has to be specified (by us) is a list
of necessary capabilities. I assume that Franz Inc. would not be
happy with "just give us all the source and all the pre-compiled
binaries and all the rights to redistribute without limitation"
but we could ask for that:)
Or it could be that some group of people could be given full
"enterprise" copies but the version posted would be limited
somehow (how?) as a courtesy to Franz Inc.
> Given that heap
> limit and the 60-day license renewal, I wouldn't consider ACL Trial
> Edition an attractive platform for maxima.
I agree; what would change your mind? (Actually, I too have
an enterprise version at UC Berkeley, so there are a couple of
us for whom the production or testing of Maxima+Allegro is
already possible, but without some kind of agreement with Franz Inc
we can't really redistribute/post/ etc such a version.)
>
>
> Has anybody tried to compile maxima with Corman Lisp -
> <http://www.corman.net/>;? The conditions on the free version seems
> quite generous. IIUC, they would allow re-distributing a maxima binary
> (for non-commercial purposes).
>
> Ole
I've never tried Corman Lisp.
RJF