Re: CLtL2 copyright question

D Herring wrote:
Hi all,

The general consensus seems to be that, barring an unexpected move by ANSI, the Lisp spec's copyright is intractably lost. Too many may could claim ownership, but nobody in a position to clarify things seems to care.

That's very strange!


The next best thing, CLtL2, seems to have a cleaner heritage.

Before I go bothering Guy Steele himself, does anyone around here know what CLtL2's status is? Like the ANSI draft, there's public sources, an HTML version, etc... and no obvious license agreement (save the restrictions added to the CLHS). Unlike ANSI, it should only take a small number of people to set that straight...

Kent Pitman? Daniel Weinreib? You frequent this list; your names appear on the front cover; do you have any comments or insight?

This is a legal question involving intellectual property rights.
In the United States, at least, I have learned that these issues
can be complicated, and the only people who truly know are lawyers
who specialize in intellectual property.

However, I don't think there's any reason not to ask Guy Steele.
He would know whom to ask (probably at the publisher).

-- Dan


I'm not looking for commercial rights, merely to freely distribute derivative works. For now, I've modernized the LaTex and generated a hyperlinked pdf (with index). Later it might be fun if anyone could note changes between CLtL2 and ANSI, interweave personal comments or example code, highlight different implementation's interpretations, add new sections, etc.

Thanks,
Daniel
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