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

Sebastian Sastre ssastre at seaswork.com
Sat Mar 22 17:05:19 UTC 2008


AFAIK the ported seaside code should not be part of the commercially licenced VW
code. It should be a MIT piece of software running on top of a commercial one
(like Squeak runing on Win32/Mac). But I'm not an expert, just common sense.

	cheers,
 
Sebastian Sastre

 

 


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[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] En nombre de Rob Rothwell
	Enviado el: Sábado, 22 de Marzo de 2008 13:45
	Para: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
	Asunto: Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Swazoo - LGPL or MIT?
	
	
	Just wondering how all of this fits in to the work that VisualWorks is
doing with Seaside since it is a commercial product, and they have already
started... 

	Rob
	
	
	On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Jason Johnson
<jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com> wrote:
	

		On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Lukas Renggli
<renggli at gmail.com> wrote:
		>
		>  This is the same for Seaside. All packages in the Seaside 2.9
		>  repository are MIT licensed, including the Seaside-Swazoo
adapters. If
		>  there is the slightest doubt on one of the packages in there,
we have
		>  to move it somewhere else.
		>
		>  Lukas
		
		Personally I would move it.  I know there has been a discussion
on
		here about what is affected, but afaik not by lawyers.  And even
they
		are lawyers, until this part of the license has a precedence set
in
		court I think it's still a risk.  For example, if Seaside got
popular
		enough to pop up on the FSF radar, how do we know they wouldn't
argue
		from another angle that makes Seaside appear in violation.
		
		It's best to avoid extremists from *either* side. :)
		
		






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