[squeak-dev] Re: On the swazoo list

Paolo Bonzini bonzini at gnu.org
Tue Mar 25 08:00:31 UTC 2008


>> I am very sorry to hear that.  It is not my intention to harm other
>> projects but rather to protect my own.  I have a large code base now
>> that relies on Hyper and Hyper derives from early versions of Swazoo,
>> so just like you I do have "practical impacts" to worry about.  This
>> is not just a game.
> 
> Out of honest curiosity, how would these large code bases be harmed by 
> Swazoo being under MIT instead of LGPL? (I am assuming that by 
> "protecting your own project" you mean that these projects would be 
> harmed by the use of MIT)

Yes, this I don't understand either.

Hyper can still be LGPL if Swazoo turns to MIT.

Paolo



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