2009/9/16 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> Giuseppe Luigi Punzi wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> El mié, 16-09-2009 a las 00:31 -0700, Andreas Raab escribió:
>>>
>>> Andreas Raab wrote:
>>> > David Corking wrote:
>>> >> If the community agrees to get code from somewhere else (in this case
>>> >> from Newspeak) then that code may have an MIT-compatible license.  My
>>> >> question is: does Squeak have a policy to say whether such foreign
>>> >> code may be committed to the trunk?
>>> > > All source code committed to the trunk must be available as MIT. In >
>>> > > other words, it is not acceptable to commit code to the trunk that's not >
>>> > > available under MIT. No exceptions.
>>>
>>> PS. I realize that the reasoning may not be obvious so here it is spelled
>>> out explicitly: Basically, we don't want to make judgments about what
>>> licenses are compatible with what other licenses. We're not lawyers, we have
>>> really no clue what the result of combining different licenses is. We need a
>>> simple story so the quid pro quo is: If you want your stuff in the trunk you
>>> must make it available as MIT, so that our story remains simple and
>>> consistent and keeps the lawyers off our collective behinds. If you can't do
>>> that, well, tough luck, you might want to think ahead the next time you
>>> choose a license.
>>
>> But, you must agree MIT license, only if you want code integrated in the
>> image, true? This is not mandatory to packages, or code outside the Trunk.
>>
>> Probably the answer is obvious, but I think is good to have it clear.
>
> Of course! Your code is your code, you own it, you can release it under any
> license of your chosing. We require that when you want to put it into the
> trunk it must be available as MIT so that everyone gets ONE license in the
> image they download but outside of that it's up to you. Your code, your
> license.
>
> FWIW, my favorite is the WTFPL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL).
>

ROFL :)

> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>



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