[squeak-dev] Re: what is holding back Smalltalk?

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Fri Nov 21 13:27:10 UTC 2008


I presume by "these sorts of responses" you mean Paolo's response to me. My
response is driven by my responsibility as being an elected member of the
leadership team, to ensure that Squeak 4.0 will have a completely clean
license. We worked very hard over the last few years to track down every
contribution to squeak since its beginning, obtaining legal documents updating
the license, and it would be a shame if a mistakenly derived work from GNU
Smalltalk were to taint the distribution once again.

I'm serious about this, and will continue to bring it up in every appropriate
context. I wish this weren't the case: I pleaded with Paolo to dual license
the Smalltalk code in GNU Smalltalk under the MIT license so that people can
freely examine the implementation and use as is or derive from it to
contribute to the squeak project. So far, these requests have been declined,
albeit understandably.
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