INTENT OF THE LITT SCRIPTING LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT TOOL LICENSE

The intent of the Litt Scripting Language
Development Tool License (LSLDTL) is to provide
programmers with a development tool that is
copylefted free software without requiring
applications built from this tool to be free
software.

I (Steve Litt) have tried to craft the LSLDTL to
prevent "cute and innovative" ways of taking this
tool private. For instance, a person might try to
make the LSLDTL licensed code dependent on
subroutines in proprietary subroutines. This is
why the LSLDTL has a clause stating that all
*development* features must reside in the LSLDTL
code, or in GPL code, but not non-GPL-compatible
code.

Although the LSLDTL allows its use with software
of almost any license, it specifically forbids use
with licenses doing any of the following:

1. Restricting reverse engineering

2. Restricting discussion about the software

3. Code that includes software patents

I feel that restrictions on reverse engineering
and discussion, and software patents, are so
destructive to society, that I have included
language preventing use of LSLDTL licensed code
with any software incorporating any of these three
atrocities.