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Luke Gorrie <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: other
Other License: We use three different licenses for separate parts of our 
project, as described above: GPL, LGPL, and the public domain.


Package: SLIME: The Superior Lisp Interaction Mod
System name: slime
Type: non-GNU

Description:
SLIME is the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs.



What it does is extend Emacs's Common Lisp support with features like those 
available in Elisp programming: edit-definition, hyperlinked apropos, debugger, 
and so on. It is similar in spirit to another popular package called ILISP, but 
significantly different in overall approach and in implementation.



It consists of two logical parts: an Emacs minor mode that extends lisp-mode 
with new features for interacting with a running Lisp system, and a Lisp server 
program for interacting with Emacs. Several implementations of the Lisp server 
exist for different Common Lisp implementations.



The source consists of several parts, using different free-software licenses. 
The Emacs mode uses the GPL. The CMUCL and SBCL Lisp backends are public 
domain. The OpenMCL backend is LGPL. Code shared between the backends is public 
domain. For the backends we choose the license that will best fit in with the 
free Lisp it must interoperate with.



Our focus is on free Lisp implementations, though we may in future add optional 
support non-free ones also. Our own code, in CVS, will always be free.



SLIME was previously hosted on Sourceforge, but due to an administrative 
problem it was accidentally deleted and is taking a long time (two weeks so 
far) to restore. This has caused us a great deal of frustration, so we are 
applying for hosting on Savannah in order to get back to work.



The SLIME sources can be downloaded from 
http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/misc/lisp/slime-30sep2003.tar.gz. There are many 
patches for new features waiting to be applied once we have an operational CVS 
repository again.



Other Software Required:
SLIME requires:

  Any recent version of Emacs or XEmacs,

  Any one of these free Lisps: CMU Common Lisp, Steele Bank Common Lisp, 
OpenMCL.



Other Comments:
I hope that our multiple-licensing scheme meets your approval. If not, I would 
be grateful if you would tells us what we must change, but create the project 
anyway on the understanding that we will not commit any code that does not meet 
your criteria. I ask this to minimize delay, as we are hurting badly from our 
two-weeks Sourceforge outage and eager to spend our time hacking instead of 
filing support requests!


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