[squeak-dev] On the swazoo list
Jason Johnson
jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 19:39:30 UTC 2008
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ah! The wayback machine to the rescue:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20020211054006/http://sourceforge.net/projects/swazoo/
>
> Not quite 2000, but you can see that from that every version of the
> page over many years clearly showed LGPL. Note too that I was not a
> project admin, so I had no way of setting the license or changing it.
Great, thanks. I'll look at this.
> I think it would be rather disingenuous of Janko to suggest that I
> have suddenly started saying that Swazoo is under the LGPL. Janko's
> MIT conversion is altogether far more sudden.
Well, I don't want to put words in his mouth. That's just how I
interpreted his responses.
(this is the best I could find:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126849.html
but I thought he said something closer to my summarization. I
can't seem to find it though).
> > So from his description it sounds like an attempt
> > at forcing the software into LGPL simply by "injecting" your own LGPL
> > code into it. Which would, of course, be every bit as reprehensible
> > as the "software mugging" you describe.
>
> If you look at the version history of Swazoo in the Cincom public
> Store and at the archive of the Swazoo mailing list you'll see that I
> wasn't just injecting a bit of code here and there :-)
In the theoretical situation I described, the amount of code wouldn't
matter. It would be someone contributing a bunch of code under a
different license and trying to do a "hostile take-over".
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