[squeak-dev] How to rewrite a license restricted method?

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Mon Feb 9 18:56:36 UTC 2009


  Hi, Ken,

> Thanks to the efforts of many including Yoshiki Ohshima and Matthew
> Fulmer we have made some real progress on a 'license clean' version of
> Squeak.  But we are now at the phase where we have some code for which
> it appears we are not going to get a relicensing agreement.  So at this
> point it's either remove it or replace it.
> 
> Thanks to Matthew publishing the history tools I've started to try to
> help out with this and have quickly learned that I really don't know
> what to do.  I'm going to present an example here and I'm asking you for
> your considered opinion.

  At least, For the methods that also exists in Etoys 4.0, I don't
think it is fruitful to bring in more scrutiny...

  In regards to asStringWithCr, it would certainly classified as
trivial.  (Does anybody use the method with a collection whose
elements are not strings, BTW?)

> Should I delete the current implementation entirely and rewrite it from
> scratch?

  I don't think so.

-- Yoshiki



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