Chronos
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Jul 20 00:06:59 UTC 2005
Looks interesting, but I sure hope you'll get your licensing terms in
order. In particular this:
"4. You must agree not to port or translate Chronos into any
programming language whose syntax, semantics and computational model are
not substantially compliant to the ANSI Smalltalk Language
Specification. Porting Chronos to non-Smalltalk programming languages
is strictly prohibited. However, you are welcome to enter into
negotiations with the copyright owner for permission to port Chronos to
non-Smalltalk programming languages. In some cases, permission may be
granted at no cost or other encumberance."
Unless you are trying to find out whether anyone actually reads the
license (in which case you've earned yourself a pat on the back for
adding a really creative little clause to your license ;-) I think you
should seriously rethink the attitude express by this clause. Surely you
realize that niche languages like Smalltalk would be hurt more than
other systems if everybody would pick up this attitude and have
do-not-port-to-languages-i-don't-like clauses.
Cheers,
- Andreas
Alan L. Lovejoy wrote:
>
> This is a low-key announcment of the availability of an early beta
> version of The Chronos Date/Time Library (for VisualWorks Smalltalk.)
>
> It's a beta version because a) the documentation is only 80% complete,
> and b) support for leap seconds has not yet been implemented. It's an
> **early** beta version because it has not yet been tested by a large
> user base. However, there are no known bugs.
>
> You can find out more, and obtain a copy for evaluation, at the Chronos
> Web Site: http://www.chronos-st.org.
>
> --Alan
>
>
>
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