programming/ginas/ginas-license

Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 13:46:22 -0500
To: jholder@frii.com (J. Holder)
From: Lee Standish <jlstandish@iquest.net>
Subject: Re: GINAS

At 12:44 PM 6/3/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Probably thought you wouldn't get much mail on GINAS anymore...
>anyway, I've been thinking about goffing around with your system and 
>making modifications for it.  I was wondering if either

Never have received much feedback on it, and none since spring '96.  As far
as I know, no one is even making use of it.

>a) I could get permission to make a derivative work, which I would distribute
>   as freeware.
>
>or
>
>b) you would release GINAS under a BSD-style license, which would mean 
>   I wouldn't have to ask for permission as you would have implicitly
>   given it.

I have no problem with either option.  I'm no longer working in a LISPish
environment, haven't touched the code in well over a year, and doubt I will
even make much use of it in the foreseeable future.

>Also, Is there a version newer than 0.4, August 1995?

Nope.  v0.4 was going to be relabeled as v1.0, but I was distracted with
finishing grad school and getting a job out in the real world.  I had
reworked some of the internals of the engine to improve performance, but
then realized that it would kill performance for resolving inherited class
members, so that change was never finished off.  Not even sure where that
code would be, having changed home computers twice since then, meaning that
the code is buried in some archive or other.

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