Janko Mivšek wrote:
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
I hate licence issues with a passion. But I will stick up for Randal here.
If there is an issue, there is an issue, and until that issue is resolved, there still is an issue. Furthermore it is no crime to point out that there is still an issue.
When person who highlights a problem is treated as being a problem, that is actually abuse, and it has no place in our forum. I think that Paulo should apologize for being rude.
I expect to contribute to Squeak core in some manner, therefore I am not able to "get stuck in" to GNU Smalltalk, without some licence issues effecting what I do. The danger being, according to Randal, that if Squeak makes use of GNU Smalltalk code, directly or indirectly, then Squeak might come under LGPL jurisdiction.
If the above is true, then its up to the GNU Smalltalk people to change things "For Smalltalk as a whole sake"
If its not true, then show us it is not true, clearly and unequivocally
Keith