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> Stallman convinced someone to open-source his entire lisp compiler because the REPL used the GPL'd readline library, and Stallman seemed like he would have ta
by tbrownaw 17y ago
> Stallman convinced someone to open-source his entire lisp compiler because the REPL used the GPL'd readline library, and Stallman seemed like he would have taken the issue to court.
Defeating a bogus lawsuit costs money, so this could have just been the cheaper route (or maybe the guy just wasn't familiar with the cases cited in the article here).
- jrockway 17y agoI think it turned out that the clisp author just liked the idea of the GPL, but hadn't fully understood it before Stallman confronted him.
- sethg 17y ago...or maybe this happened before the Galoob case that the OP mentioned, and therefore the compiler author’s lawyers had good reason to fear that a court would side with Stallman.
- jjs 17y agoNo, this happened several months after the case: http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/... http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10867856245078964488&q=galoob+nintendo&hl=en&as_sdt=2002 http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1086785624507896...