On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:52:35PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Jens> I would like to be a full-blown Debian Developer, and therefore > Jens> I need an advocate. I maintain the following packages (see > Jens> http://www.diku.dk/~jpsecher/debian.html) > > Jens> My short-term plans are to get mosml (a compiler) out of nonfree > > If you succeed that would be really great, it would make mosml the > _only_ free and generally usable SML implementation. I thought of > packaging PolyML which I use, but a quick post on -legal made it clear > that it's also non-free.
just use ocaml :))) > I don't think freeing the CL code will be easy, though. It doesn't > just depend on the developers, but also on the INRIA bureaucrats, I am > afraid. Not sure, Xavier is the main copyright holder, and he can change the copyright if he wants, i think. There may be other issues i guess, and the INRIA legal department don't seem to be very aware of Free Software issues, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther
