[Seaside] Re: Seaside licence for ESUG 2004 Report

[Avi Bryant]

On Sep 14, 2004, at 4:45 PM, Serge Stinckwich wrote:

> Avi Bryant wrote:
>> On Sep 14, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> we have made with Nicolas Roard, a french ESUG 2004 Report for Linux 
>>> Magazine France, but i didn't remember the licence of Seaside.
>> Seaside is free for non-commercial use, and for any use (commercial 
>> or non-commercial) on Squeak.  If you want to use Seaside 
>> commercially on VisualWorks, or port it to another Smalltalk, please 
>> contact me.
>
>
> Ok, thanks you Avi.
> I didn't understand that Seaside was only free (free as free beer) and 
> not open-source as defined by OSI (http://www.opensource.org/).

You mean Open Source then ;).  Neither is Squeak.  I think you'll find, 
however, that there is very little preventing you from doing what you 
want with either (with distribution by Debian being a notable example, 
but one that's probably less important for Seaside than for Squeak 
itself).

I don't want to get into a protracted licensing discussion on this 
list; if anyone has concerns or suggestions around Seaside licensing, 
email me privately.  If need me, we can start a separate list for such 
issues.

Avi