Subject: Reconsidering the GPL licensing of Maxima
From: Jay Belanger
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:25:53 -0500
Raymond Toy writes:
...
> I don't know what state maxima 5.6 (pre GPL?) was in, but I have no
> desire to even think about starting over and making it compile again
> on cmucl or any other ANSI CL Lisp. I don't think 5.6 worked in
> anything other than gcl.
The work done post 5.6, which is where that work was done, could be
kept if all the authors agreed to the license change, but the work
that it built on might have to be redone, which might be awkward, I
suppose.
Jay