[r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS

Chris Hanson cph at csail.mit.edu
Wed Oct 31 13:34:29 EDT 2007


John Cowan wrote:
> Chris Hanson scripsit:
> 
>> As for the MIT/GNU Scheme implementation, neither Taylor nor I will be
>> implementing R6RS.  Perhaps, someday, another contributor will do so,
>> but it will take some convincing before I'll allow it.
> 
> "Allow it"?
> 
> The right to fork is the cornerstone of the Open Source community.

Of course.  But the result won't be MIT/GNU Scheme.  As the GNU
maintainer for this project I get to decide what it is.




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