Dear SRFI authors, past, present, and future,

as many of you know, the SRFI process, upon its inception, adopted a
copy of the Internet Task Force's RFC license, with the intent that
the SRFI documents and associated reference implementations would be
usable in as many circumstances as possible.  Alas, there has been
some dispute over the meaning of the SRFI license and whether it
should be considered a free license.

Therefore, we will switch the license for the SRFI process on February
1, 2005, to the MIT (X11) license: a widely accepted free license,
which is GPL-compatible, OSI certified, and non-copyleft, allowing for
proprietary systems to use SRFIs.  A copy is attached.

We ask the authors of past SRFIs to allow us to retrofit the MIT
license to their SRFI documents and reference implementations.  If you
agree, please send an email clearly stating that you do (mentioning
the specific SRFIs you've written) to xxxxxx@srfi.schemers.org.
The community and the SRFI editors will be grateful.  If you don't
agree, we would also grateful if you could send us a notice, so we
don't have to worry whether we have reached you or not.  Please do so
even if the SRFIs you've written are still in draft or were withdrawn.

Again, many thanks to all SRFI authors for their excellent service to
the Scheme community!

Regards,
The SRFI editors

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