Re: [Gcl-devel] Boyer benchmark results

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Michael Koehne <address@hidden> writes:

> Moin Camm Maguire,
> 
> > I wanted to commit them to the cvs tree, but there does not appear to
> > be a permissible license/copyright anywhere.  Richard Gabriel offers a
> > pdf of the book from which these were taken on his website under the
> > 'creative commons' license, which, to my understanding, is not
> > compatible with the (L)GPL as it forbids commercial use.
> > 
> > I will try to contact him for clarification.
>  
>   the gabriel benchmark should better not go into GCL but into Debian,
>   as eg. cl-gabriel to support any common-lisp-controller Lisp that is
>   supported by Debian. So anyone could run his own benchmarks.
> 

Agreed.  But it could also be handy for people wishing to test out a
new gcl build.  I think ecl and some others have a benchmark subdir
AFAICR. 

>   there is no need to ask him for a (L)GPL'ed copy of the benchmark,
>   but a copy under some Debian conformant license would be nice.
> 
>   is the 'creative commons' license Debian compatible, or non-free ?
>   any (p)URL to the original pdf and its license ?
> 

http://www.dreamsongs.com/Books.html

'creative commons' forbids commercial use, so is not dfsg free.  It is
likely these were circulated separately before the pdf of the book was
posted under more liberal terms, but I do not have time to chase this
down.  I'll try to get a clarifying request out to the author at some
point. 

In general, though, these benchmarks are in need of a size upgrade, as
modern machines must loop over them many times to get non-granular
results.  


Take care,

>   it would be still possible, to ask him if the benchmark could be
>   published in Debian/non-free, if the 'creative commons' license is
>   incompatible with Debian.
> 
> Bye Michael
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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