I think this is an excellent idea.  I think it's important to get it
approved by OSI too.

- Stephen

> Ups. GPL is bad for Smalltalk: Filing this into the image is 
> linking. And then as soon as you distribute your Programm, 
> *everything* needs to be GPL (even Visualworks itself...).
> 
> Why don't we (as "the greater Smalltalk community") set up a 
> nice "Free Smalltalk Licence". Such a License should be 
> OSI-Approved and "compatible" with commercial Systems like 
> VisualWorks. 
> 
> Then we should try to make it part of the Smalltalk culture 
> to release all free stuff under that License... 
> 
> What do you think?
> 
>                 Marcus
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> Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de  -- Squeak! http://squeakland.org
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