I think that the Macsyma company used Austin-Kyoto-Common-Lisp
(which I believe is related to GCL) for its unix-sun/hp/.... version.
I do not know if they are still in a position to distribute
it, but I understand that there are still sales being made of
Macsyma for Windows by Kalman Reti. Kalman may have more
information.
I don't know if this relates to the current license
discussion.
RJF
Richard Stallman wrote:
> I agree that the LGPL would be better, and I think the FSF agrees too
> for this application.
>
> I wouldn't be sad to see GCL under the GPL.
>
> GCL has had its current license for a long time. Is there any
> indication that this license has led proprietary software developers
> to contribute substantially to GCL, or even led them to use it in
> large numbers?
>
> In any case, were we to go GPL, I think at the
> minimum we would want to use a proprietary code allowing clause along
> the lines of clisp.
>
> That would not work--it would encounter the same problem as using the
> LGPL encounters: namely, that the various libraries and copied code
> don't have such an exception.
>
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