Free Smalltalk License (RE: MySQL-Driver)
Stephen Pair
spair at acm.org
Thu Jul 25 13:05:14 UTC 2002
I think this is an excellent idea. I think it's important to get it
approved by OSI too.
- Stephen
> Ups. GPL is bad for Smalltalk: Filing this into the image is
> linking. And then as soon as you distribute your Programm,
> *everything* needs to be GPL (even Visualworks itself...).
>
> Why don't we (as "the greater Smalltalk community") set up a
> nice "Free Smalltalk Licence". Such a License should be
> OSI-Approved and "compatible" with commercial Systems like
> VisualWorks.
>
> Then we should try to make it part of the Smalltalk culture
> to release all free stuff under that License...
>
> What do you think?
>
> Marcus
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> --
> Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de -- Squeak! http://squeakland.org
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