Be Wary!  AIDA is GPL'd, rendering it useless with virtually every commercial Smalltalk system ever created, and probably Squeak as well.  Recall that GPL's "viral" requirement arguably applies to all software in an image with which it is coextensive, making it virtually impossible to lawfully distribute the image thereafter.

Unfortunately, a more relaxed construction of GPL is becoming impossible in view of the recent issues concerning uses of John Carmack's GPL'd Quake Software in the QuakeLives project, which has sought to exploit every loophole available in the GPL to avoid open-sourcing server security codes.

I believe that, until there is a full-fledged GPL Smalltalk available or Smalltalk abandons the monolithic image, GPL'd code and Smalltalk will never coexist comfortably.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIME :knight at acm.org > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 3:59 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Zope
> > > See > http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/CampSmalltalk/Smalltalk+Web+Application+Server
> > At 12:13 PM 28.02.2000 -0500, James W. Howe wrote:
> >At 09:51 PM 2/28/00 +0530, Mayuresh A Kathe wrote:
> >>Hello everybody,
> >>
> >>Has anyone taken a look at Zope @ http://www.zope.org
> >>
> >>It is using Squeak concepts and is getting really popular.
> >>
> >>Maybe we could have something like that in Squeak.
> >>
> >>Bye.
> >
> >I'm currently working on a project using Zope.  It utilizes > some very >powerful concepts and after you spend some time > with it you can do some >nice things in a very short period > of time.   Ever since I started using >it, however, I've > wished that there was an equivalent Smalltalk >implementation > for it.  A Smalltalk verison, for example, would be much > >easier to explore and extend.  Zope is Python based and the > implementation >is spread out over several directories and > there isn't a decent IDE to >work with this information.  > Debugging is also quite primitive.  I think a >combination of > something like Comanche with a Zope-like module would be > >quite useful.
> >
> >James W. Howe                           mailto:jwh at allencreek.com
> >Allen Creek Software, Inc.              pgpkey: >http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html
>Ann Arbor, MI  48103

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