shen-sources

There are open source ports that have a clear license now: https://github.com/Shen-Language/shen-sources/blob/master/LI... That said, even if I don't use this a lot, I pay for Shen Professional to support development. Like you, I got and read the book and like the ideas, and I decided to support the project because I rather be sold something explicit (a programming language) than who knows what I get sold through a language that is open source but depends on a few or even one big company to pay the devs.

> 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 fo

Shen was opensourced some time ago, under a BSD-style license: https://github.com/Shen-Language/shen-sources/blob/master/BS...