[squeak-dev] Glorp license

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Mon Mar 8 18:06:04 UTC 2010


>>>>> "Torsten" == Torsten Bergmann <astares at gmx.de> writes:

Torsten> maybe we can ask Alan Knight if it would be possible to dual-license
Torsten> GLORP, he gets a CC: of this mail. The project is currently LGPL [1]
Torsten> which may cause problems (according to the discussion on squeak-dev,
Torsten> see [2] and [3]).

Torsten> GLORP was initially a CampSmalltalk project and later continued at
Torsten> Cincom.

Ugh.  Unfortuately, adding a license like that means getting signatures from
*all* contributors, unless they have all explicitly signed rights over to
Alan.

This is why it's important to get the license *right* to begin with, folks.

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