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by delish 2552 days ago
> A really interesting evolution of lisp is Shen. The license is terrible

BSD 3-clause: https://github.com/Shen-Language/shen-sources/blob/master/LI...

Of course that's not the end of the story, and I invite anyone curious to both read more, and to not be dissuaded by a lisper's funny opinions. There (Naggum, Hoyte, Stanislav) are a lot of lispers with funny opinions.

And one more point, not directed at you but to anyone who has strongly negative opinions about Shen's licensing: In this case I'll strongly defend Mark Tarver, who first had a nonstandard license. Then people voiced disapproval. Then he BSD'd it, and made a separate closed-source version. And still we have people saying "the license is terrible." You can get Shen 21 right now under the BSD license, _because you asked for it_ (not mruts in particular). Don't punish people for doing what you ask them to do! (not mruts in particular).