Just about exactly that was proposed by someone, and implicitly rejected in the redraft :-(.
Erk, I think you're interpretation is "right", as in that's the clearest way to read those sentences. I was going by one reading of the intent from the historical discussion, which matters less than the actual legal language.
His intent might be exactly this, a Shen distribution cannot include GPLed code you write because of what he believes about the virality of the GPL, and the very bad behavior he's noted from RMS/FSF/SFLC (that I personally attested to/added from the '80s). As I recall, he also was unhappy with how GPLing Qi V1 worked out, or didn't, but you don't really need all that to treat the GPL like garlic and holy water, e.g. I've noted that the most successful implementations of niche languages have less severe licences.
Yep, "run it by legal", which just isn't going to work when there are so many competitive languages, e.g. other Lisps including the very tasty Clojure, and non-Lispy functional languages which Shen is trying to make Lisp competitive with.
Just about exactly that was proposed by someone, and implicitly rejected in the redraft :-(.
Erk, I think you're interpretation is "right", as in that's the clearest way to read those sentences. I was going by one reading of the intent from the historical discussion, which matters less than the actual legal language.
His intent might be exactly this, a Shen distribution cannot include GPLed code you write because of what he believes about the virality of the GPL, and the very bad behavior he's noted from RMS/FSF/SFLC (that I personally attested to/added from the '80s). As I recall, he also was unhappy with how GPLing Qi V1 worked out, or didn't, but you don't really need all that to treat the GPL like garlic and holy water, e.g. I've noted that the most successful implementations of niche languages have less severe licences.
Yep, "run it by legal", which just isn't going to work when there are so many competitive languages, e.g. other Lisps including the very tasty Clojure, and non-Lispy functional languages which Shen is trying to make Lisp competitive with.