[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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