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One of the cool things about CMUCL is how its code is almost entirely in the public domain, and the parts that aren't tend to be a simple 2-clause BSD license.
by koito17 3y ago
One of the cool things about CMUCL is how its code is almost entirely in the public domain, and the parts that aren't tend to be a simple 2-clause BSD license. That's how you know the contributors do it out of love for the language and implementation :)
- _emacsomancer_ 3y agoThe same is true for SBCL[1], unsurprisingly since it came out of CMUCL. [1]: https://www.sbcl.org/history.html https://www.sbcl.org/history.html
- lispm 3y agoThe implementation was originally a university project (financially supported by DARPA) with a team funded to work on that implementation. Scott Fahlman was the lead and it was important for him that the implementation, its documents and its IDE was publicly available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Fahlman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Fahlman