Subject: Questions about LClint package I am creating.

From: Dale Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 96 20:58:32 EDT

I am working on an LClint package that is taking much
longer than I expected due to unforseen time constraints.
I hope to finish it up in the next couple of weeks. To
do so I need answers to a couple of questions. First and
most important is a question about the license. It follows:

     Copyright (c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1994, 1995, 1996.
     All Rights Reserved.
     Unpublished rights reserved under the copyright laws of
     the United States.

 THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
 OR IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

 This code is distributed freely and may be used freely under the 
 following conditions:

     1. This notice may not be removed or altered.

     2. This code may not be re-distributed or modified
        without permission from MIT (contact 
        [email-masked].)  

        Modification and re-distribution are encouraged,
        but we want to keep track of changes and
        distribution sites.

I mailed the request list as required and received the 
following reply.

>From [email-masked] Tue Mar 19 14:23:58 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 14:23:56 -0500
From: [email-masked] (David Evans)
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Subject: request permission to modify and redistribute clint
Status: RO

Sorry for the slow response, I was out of town last week.

> I am writing to request permission to modify and re-distribute
> lclint as part of the Debian projects distribution of Linux.

Sure, I have no problem with this, as long as some effort is made to
make sure the most recent version is included as well as documentation
pointing to the larch site.

--- Dave

So is this allowed in the regular distribution or should it
be in non-free.

Secondly, the LClint package provides some .el and .elc files
to allow access to LClint through emacs. I noticed a directory
under /usr/lib/emacs named site-lisp. Is this an appropriate
place to install these files or does that directory serve some
other purpose? There are only 3or4 files so should I create a
separate sub-directory for them if this is the proper place to
put them?

Thanks for your input

Dale Miller
[email-masked]
sorry that email address should be
[email-masked]

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From: Michael Meskes <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 08:46:50 +0200 (MET DST)

> pointing to the larch site.

I don't agree with Bruce here. This personal email does not say anything
that requires each CD manufacturer to request permission. The original
copyright notice does, but with this personal permission it should be okay.

But then I've been wrong before...

> separate sub-directory for them if this is the proper place to

My own (local) lclint installation used this directory, too. No problem so
far.

Michael

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From: Erick Branderhorst <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:10:00 +0100

> So is this allowed in the regular distribution or should it
Seems ok to me, if not ok tell me because same kind of thing is with the
mathpad package.
 > separate sub-directory for them if this is the proper place to
I recommend site-lisp/subdir, but that's personal.

erick

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From: [email-masked] (Emilio Lopes)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 96 11:16 EST

>>>>> "DM" == Dale Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:

DM> Secondly, the LClint package provides some .el and .elc files
DM> to allow access to LClint through emacs. I noticed a directory
DM> under /usr/lib/emacs named site-lisp. Is this an appropriate
DM> place to install these files or does that directory serve some
DM> other purpose? There are only 3or4 files so should I create a
DM> separate sub-directory for them if this is the proper place to
DM> put them?

I think it's a good idea to put them in a subdir of site-lisp. Please,
have a look at the package w3-el (in the section net; It was packaged
by Raul Miller) to see how to do the autoloads in a clean way.

Emilio.

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