----- Original Message ----- From: "Cees de Groot" cg@cdegroot.com To: "Discussing the Squeak Foundation" squeakfoundation@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:08 AM Subject: Re: [Squeakfoundation]Re: Sublicensing seems possible
. . . but they are willing to discuss other ways out of the 'not OSI/DFSG compatible' impasse.
Pardon my asking, but in what way is this an 'impasse' from the Squeak side? The fact Debian can't include Squeak in their distributions limits Debian, not Squeak (which is in fact regularly released in deb packages) while the lack of OSI Certification is far from the biggest hurdle to wide adoption of Squeak/Smalltalk. Stripping Squeak just to get a nod from these outside standards groups -- which appear themselves to have no particular, specific interest in adding Squeak to their own lists -- seems a bit self-destructive. The current license is incredibly generous; why rock the boat?
Gary Fisher