Hi Randal,
Please excuse me but I need to support Paolo here. In sense that he doesn't stick blindfuly to those license issues while you do. Again and again. Please stop dividing Smalltalk world with such actions. Squeak is/will be MIT, GNU Smalltalk is LGPL. OK, that is, don't expose your anti-whatever license bias again and again. For the Smalltalk as a whole sake. Please.
Janko
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
I presume by "these sorts of responses" you mean Paolo's response to me. My response is driven by my responsibility as being an elected member of the leadership team, to ensure that Squeak 4.0 will have a completely clean license. We worked very hard over the last few years to track down every contribution to squeak since its beginning, obtaining legal documents updating the license, and it would be a shame if a mistakenly derived work from GNU Smalltalk were to taint the distribution once again.
I'm serious about this, and will continue to bring it up in every appropriate context. I wish this weren't the case: I pleaded with Paolo to dual license the Smalltalk code in GNU Smalltalk under the MIT license so that people can freely examine the implementation and use as is or derive from it to contribute to the squeak project. So far, these requests have been declined, albeit understandably.