beware GNU Smalltalk if you want to contribute to squeak

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Wed Jan 9 17:47:22 UTC 2008


Yes. Lgpl which means we would need to relicense it to include it or  
anything derived from it in the squeak core. Any chance of that  
happening?

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On Jan 9, 2008, at 12:38 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> wrote:

>
>> The license I see at
>> <http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/smalltalk/main.c?revision=1.6&root=smalltalk&view=markup 
>> >
>> looks pretty clear:
>> * This file is part of GNU Smalltalk.
>> *
>> * GNU Smalltalk is free software; you can redistribute it and/or  
>> modify it
>> * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  
>> the Free
>> * Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any  
>> later  * version.
>> Doesn't look like I can just lift part of the libs from GST and use  
>> it as-is
>> in something that is not as restrictive as the LGPL.
>
> The license I see for kernel/Object.st also looks pretty clear:
>
> | This file is part of the GNU Smalltalk class library.
> |
> | The GNU Smalltalk class library is free software; you can  
> redistribute it
> | and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public  
> License
> | as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1,  
> or (at
> | your option) any later version.
>
> Paolo
>



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