[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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