[License-discuss] Data portability as an obligation under an open source license

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Tue Jul 2 19:01:08 UTC 2019


On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 11:13 AM VanL <van.lindberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is a fundamental element of LISP that "data" and "program" are
> expressed (or expressable) using the same syntax.
>

This is really stretching. All programming languages have some way of
encoding data, text strings fit the definition. A lot of it can be
protected by copyright.
That data and data which is input by the user are fundamentally different.
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