Comment by knuckleheads
2 years ago
Has the license for Shen changed in the last few years? Last I remember it was a custom one that was off putting. I got and read the book years ago, interesting ideas, but not so interesting as to try and go further with a language with a weird license.
Says they transitioned to 3-clause BSD a while ago: https://shenlanguage.org/OSM/License.html
Ah nice, thank you
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.
There was a crowdfunding to open source it. It seems to have gotten more friendly with the open science thing as well. Might give it another go.