This package was debianized by Brent A. Fulgham bfulgham@debian.org on Fri, 4 Feb 2000 22:10:09 -0700. It was downloaded from http://download.plt-scheme.org/drscheme/ Upstream Authors: PLT Scheme Inc. Copyright: Everything in this package is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), except for the R5RS and SRFI docs, of which the copyright follows below. The text of the LGPL is not included in this file, because there is a verbatim copy in /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL on Debian systems. ------------------------------- SRFI license: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ------------------------------- R5RS license: We intend this report to belong to the entire Scheme community, and so we grant permission to copy it in whole or in part without fee. In particular, we encourage implementors of Scheme to use this report as a starting point for manuals and other documentation, modifying it as necessary. Note from Ari Pollak : because the R5RS license wasn't clear enough according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, I asked the authors to clarify what they meant. Here are their responses: On Jun 28, William D Clinger wrote: > > Can R5RS be modified and distributed by anyone, with or without fee? > > Yes. > > William D Clinger > Co-editor, R5RS On Jun 29, Richard Kelsey wrote: > > Can R5RS be modified and distributed by anyone, with or without fee? > > Yes. > > Richard A Kelsey > Co-editor, R5RS On Jul 6, Jonathan A Rees wrote: > In answer to "Can R5RS be modified and distributed by anyone, with or > without fee?", the answer is > yes. > > Jonathan