goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> Cees de Groot <cg at cdegroot.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 14:49, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
>  > > - As Goran mentions, there is still uncertainty about the freeness of
>  > > the SmaCC generation tools.=20
>  >
>  > I disagree. From the SmaCC download page: "SmaCC is available for free
>  > use. We only request that if you create a parser for some widely
>  > available language, you make it available for others to use." and a
>  > no-warranty disclaimer. That's good enough for me for inclusion.
>  >
>  > If they later decide to make a commercial version of SmaCC, fine. The
>  > Squeak community can just continue building on whatever is in the image.
>  > Question for our emergency holographic laywer ;-): Andrew, if someone
>  > puts up software in source form for download, without any mention about
>  > licensing terms, etcetera, like
>  > http://www.refactory.com/RefactoringBrowser/, is there any 'default'
>  > that I can assume in. E.g. can I assume that the stuff has been put into
>  > the public domain?
> 
> This exact question that you are now posing is the exact reason for me
> claiming the uncertainty which you (see above) disagreed with. ;-) I
> have looked at the webpage and I have read what John have written.
> 
> IMHO I would like a license and not rely on the above quoted text.
> 
> And also - we have vowed earlier to try to keep "Squeak official" under
> Squeak-L. Relying on the above "license" would definitely break that
> little "rule".
> 
>  > (RB is just an example; the majority of Smalltalk goodies - including
>  > some of mine ;-) - are distributed this way).
> 
> I know - I am probably just as big a sinner as everyone else. :-) But we
> really should try to keep track of these things.

As a Squeak list lurker... I find it entertaining that there is 
widespread recognition that there has got to be a "better way" than the 
monolithic image, but at the same time there is a drive to apply a 
monolegal license. Ironic, don't you think? Squeak should just be a 
distro. Otherwise, you're going to be having flamewars about whether it 
should be called SmaCC or Squeak/SmaCC (aka Linux vs. GNU/Linux).

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Travis Griggs
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