[squeak-dev] Re: Swazoo - LGPL or MIT?
Jason Johnson
jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 20:23:01 UTC 2008
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> Bruce Badger wrote:
> > ... so the current lack appears to be in the data available through
> > the Squeak Map Package Loader which would incorrectly lead people to
> > think that Swazoo was under MIT. This needs to say the LGPL instead.
>
> I will admit that the situation of Swazoo on SM is *extremely* confusing
> at this point. The package named "Swazoo" is being marked as owned by
> Janko, does not have a license in the top-level page and lists LGPL for
> the individual releases. So far, so good.
>
> However, the packages named "Swazoo-HTTP", "Swazoo-Listener", and
> "Swazoo-Server" instead are listed as owned by Avi Bryant, list MIT in
> the top-level page, and either "other" or no license in the individual
> releases. This seems to be a complete mess.
>
> Unfortunately, requesting that Janko change these packages is beyond his
> control. You need to talk to Avi about changing that to LGPL if that's
> the appropriate license because he is the only listed maintainer of
> these packages.
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
Janko said earlier in this thread that those 3 packages are derived
from work that predates Bruce's contributions and are MIT, so it
sounds to me like they're listed correctly.
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