I will try to get someone from Franz Inc to read through this
and make a more specific proposal about what would be
included. I think that the Maxima system that is distributed
could be made without a compiler, though such a system would
be handicapped for further development.
RJF
Liam Healy wrote:
>>>>>>"Richard" == Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
>>>>>>
>
> >> Nothing I do with maxima really takes long,
> >> so running interpreted isn't so bad. If compiled, then wouldn't Franz
> >> really be giving away the complete system with compiler and all since
> >> maxima gives access to the underlying lisp?
>
>
> Richard> Yes. Which seems odd to me. That is, someone could take such a
> Richard> free Maxima+Allegro and try to strip out the maxima code (or for
> Richard> that matter, just leave it there!) and run some other lisp program.
> Richard> I assume there is some way of Franz not "giving away the store"
> Richard> but I don't know exactly how. But then the trial version pretty
> Richard> much gives away the store and they still have a business.
>
>
> In the Allegro Enterprise edition, you are given a "dynamic runtime"
> (I think its called) license. This permits you to distribute runtime
> images I _think_ only for noncommercial purposes. However, the images
> are not complete - things are stripped out before the image is made,
> including most notably the compiler. The recepient can interpret any
> random CL code to his heart's content, but there is no compiler.
>
> More info can be had from Franz Inc.
>
> Liam
>