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Subject: Re: Allegro Common Lisp for Linux, License expiry?
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From: Michel Schinz <schinz@studi.epfl.ch>
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mann@orasis.vis.toronto.edu (Richard Mann) writes:

> Did anyone else notice that the license for Allegro Common Lisp
> expires on Jan 1 1998?  (Item 9 "TERMINATION" in the file
> License.txt).
> Does this mean we may have to pay to use it after this date?

I talked to the Franz people about the Linux version of ACL and they
told me that the reason why it was free is that they currently do not
want to invest too much time and money in it.  The reason is that they
still do not know what will happen to Linux.  But if one day they
decide to fully develop the Linux version of ACL (and port CLIM and
the other tools), then it will no longer be free, unfortunately.

Michel.
