[squeak-dev] Re: Swazoo - LGPL or MIT?

Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek at eranova.si
Wed Mar 19 10:10:53 UTC 2008


Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Bruce Badger wrote:
>> On 18/03/2008, Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si> wrote:
>>> Bruce Badger wrote:
>>>  > Swazoo is licensed under the LGPL, it says so right on the 
>>> SourceForge
>>>  > project and it was on that basis that we did some work with it.
>>
>>> Just changed to MIT on squeakforge, to please all license
>>>  fundamentalists out there :)
>>
>> Swazoo is licensed under the LGPL, just saying it ain't changes
>> nothing.  Reporting the license incorrectly just ends up misleading
>> people.  *Knowingly* misrepresenting the licence is a very Bad Thing
>> Indeed.
> 
> I suppose Janko collected agreement to change the license from the major 
> contributors to Swazoo.
> 
> Paolo

No I didn't, but I also don't remember that we seriously set up a 
license for Swazoo. Those chooses were more chooses by license 
popularity than anything else. As it was (and still mostly is) in 
Smalltalk world.

Best regards
Janko

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Janko Mivšek
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Smalltalk Web Application Server
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