And the fact that the world doesn't want to buy iraqi oil doesn't limit the iraqies, it just limits the world, right?
You don't want kids in schools to have Squeak preinstalled on their computers, simply because it is part of DebianJr/DebianEdu/Debian multimedia project (I can never remember their precise name)?
You don't want the hoards of people that contribute their programming time to free software in stiffer/poorer languages to feel free and safe to contribute Squeak code?
I do.
Daniel
Gary Fisher gafisher@sprynet.com wrote:
----- 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
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Vainsencher" danielv@netvision.net.il Subject: Re: [Squeakfoundation]Re: Sublicensing seems possible
And the fact that the world doesn't want to buy iraqi oil doesn't limit the iraqies, it just limits the world, right?
Um, it would if the Iraqis were offering it for free. (-:
You don't want kids in schools to have Squeak preinstalled on their computers, simply because it is part of DebianJr/DebianEdu/Debian multimedia project (I can never remember their precise name)?
Daniel, I'd like to see every school running Debian but the fact is most aren't; further, I strongly suspect most schools where Squeak is installed aren't running Debian either. My own experience is that a certain decidedly un-open OS rules the roost thus far, but Squeak doesn't really seem to care.
You don't want the hoards of people that contribute their programming time to free software in stiffer/poorer languages to feel free and safe to contribute Squeak code?
I do.
So do I, nor do I see what's holding them back.
Gary
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