MySQL-Driver

Patrick Curtain patrick at swdev.com
Thu Jul 25 15:31:53 UTC 2002


Wonderful idea!

On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 11:58 PM, Marcus Denker wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 01:17:18PM -0500, Mark A. Schwenk wrote:
>> This driver is a Squeak port of Josh Miller's VisualWorks driver for
>> MySQL. The license for his driver is GPL. The home page for his driver
>> is
>>
>> 	http://jdmsoft.com/MysqlDriver.html
>>
> 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
>
>
>
> --
> Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de  -- Squeak! http://squeakland.org
>
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