[squeak-dev] Re: OpenQwaq is open!

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at angband.za.org
Tue May 3 21:31:23 UTC 2011


On 2011/05/03 22:22, Nikolay Suslov wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Frank Shearar
> <frank.shearar at angband.za.org <mailto:frank.shearar at angband.za.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     Even so, there's a lot of stuff in OpenQwaq from OpenCobalt, and
>     OpenCobalt's not GPLed. Islands, TeaTime, ... are valuable libraries
>     that we ought to help Matthew unpackage.
>
>
> No, that's wrong. It is better to say: "there's a lot of stuff in
> OpenQwaq from OpenCroquet".
> Teleplace/OpenQwaq and OpenCobalt are both derived from the same Croquet
> Hedgehog (2007) which had included Islands, partly TeaTime ect.
> OpenQwaq is pure Teleplace project, which reveals to the community the
> technologies being actively developed by Teleplace during last 4 years.
> More over, the current OpenCobalt (alpha version based on 4.x version of
> Squeak image) includes MIT licensed stuff from "non yet existed
> OpenQwaq" then. Last year, Andreas Raab and Josh Gargus made CroquetGL
> <http://www.squeaksource.com/CroquetGL.html> and Tweak
> <http://www.squeaksource.com/TweakCore.html> loadable again into the
> current Squeak trunk. After, Matthew Fulmer and John Dougan had done a
> lot great work to have Crpquet/OpenCobalt instance running on Squeak
> 4.x, doing that in parallel with Telepalce.
>
> So, it is all about the long-long, but very happy history of Croquet
> project !

Thanks for the extra info, Nikolay. I of course knew about OpenCroquet, 
but wasn't clear on the relationship between OpenCobalt and OpenCroquet.

(I still stand by what I said though :) - we should help liberate those 
lovely bits of OpenCobalt!)

frank



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