Subject: Interested in a Mac OS X (Cocoa) interface?
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:42:10 -0700
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Sarnoff [mailto:msarnoff at andrew.cmu.edu]
>
> Richard: Distributing Maxima in executable form with the project is
> probably what I would do, since I don't want users to require a pre-
> installed Lisp installation. Are there any licensing issues related
> to distributing/bundling such a binary?
>
>
I think that the current Allegro CL Express (free) license does not allow
you to distribute such a binary. Maybe a case could be made to allow this.
Without special permission, it would be a 2 step process: a user needs to
Get a (free) copy of Allegro and then run a program to load files. Then
make a dump.
For the other lisps, if they are basically GPL, then the binary is GPL too.