License Issues / base image cryptography

Cees De Groot cdegroot at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 13:39:17 UTC 2005


On 10/21/05, Marcus Denker <denker at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> it could be argued that you are not linking but reusing, thus forcing
> LGPL on the complete image. (I think in situations like these, people add a
> preamble to the license to explain what they consider to be ok. I think GNU Smalltalk
> did that)
>
Yup. With RMS's consent. So I don't think it is a very big issue.

> For Squeak, I think we decided to use the MIT license for all new
> stuff, with
> the goal to eventually have everything with that license.
>
Well, if we incorporate foreign code there's not much we can do...

Anyway, I think this whole discussion is moot at this moment - James
Robertson first should get green light from his superiours, legal
department, and whatnot ;)



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