John M McIntosh <johnmci at mac.com> said:
>Fonts are a non-issue search on squeak and accufonts
>
Well, there's still the license referring to the fonts, even if you
remove the fonts themselves :-). 

(besides, I haven't had much luck with alternative fonts - either they don't
look as good as the standard fonts or things like the left-arrow are missing).

OP: Savannah, AFAIK, requires licenses compatible with the GPL (see gnu.org).
You may want to put your code on Source Forge, which is less restrictive and
offers mostly the same features (it's the same software under the hood, after
all).

Aaron: I don't think it is productive to see the Squeak license as superior
to the GPL. They are different. The SqueakL has some known bugs, at least in
that respect the GPL could be seen as superior. But first and foremost, they
are different with different goals. The GPL ties you into a (political)
community, it has a clear agenda. SqueakL doesn't share the agenda, but this
fact doesn't make it superior.

Furthermore, I don't think there's a lot of reason to be haughty about
source sharing in Smalltalk. Sure, source sharing was common practice
in most communities before the advent of shrink-wrapped binary-only
software for microcomputers in the late '70s/early '80s, but to me (as
a Smalltalk freshman) it seems that there is little appreciation for
the legal framework created by the "Open Source movement" and little
thought has been spent on licensing stuff.

You may find it unimportant, but I feel that lots of people in the last couple
of years spent a lot of time to work on their respective legal departments to
have them allow either the publication or the use of software under open
source licenses; the mere fact that lots of Smalltalk packages come without a
license or have a license with some superfluous clauses that make it
incompatible with the Open Source Definition may make it very hard for people
in such organizations to either use or contribute to the code. 

This whole licensing business is boring stuff, but IMHO it's the oil that
keeps a community worthy of our support running.

(well, that's the only issue I have with your posting - I do agree with the
tenet of it).
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