On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:18:48 +0100
goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:

> Serge Stinckwich <Serge.Stinckwich at info.unicaen.fr> wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > In fact, Jean-Pierre let me choose the license for his code, but i don't want to pollute the Squeak source code.
> > Maybe i have to put the Actalk source code, until all these license problems are resolved, under the LGPL (like the StarBrowser). 
> > LGPL has all the benefits of GPL without his viral nature.
> 
> Well, I think unfortunately LGPL doesn't work either because when the
> code enters the image it is considered to be "linked". See my previous
> post with earlier quotes from Andrew.
> 
> My personal recommendation is MIT dual licensed with SqueakL but that
> would of course completely erase any GNUish mechanisms.

I like your idea of dual licensed mechanism, do you have any more concrete wording of this kind of combination ?
I think it could be of great benefits for all the developpers who want to release code for Squeak and don't want to
be bothered by licensing issues. Like you, i didn't like SqueakL too much

> Note: There are multiple issues at hand like "Do we want multiple
> licenses in base Squeak?" "Answer: No!" and "Are we talking about
> distribution as image or as sourcecode?". Personally I am not sure what
> happens if a package in sourceform is distributed "on the side" together
> with an image.

Yes, multiple licenses enhance confusion, but if we have only two choices : SqueakL and SqueakL + MIT license, 
for people that don't like SqueakL, it could be nice !

> > I agree with you Alan, that we need to be very carefull with all of this.
> > 
> > If there is some interests, i could try to summarize all the previous posts on the Squeak list and c.l.s newsgroup
> > about these issues in order to have a more clearer picture.
> 
> Sure, there have been numerous attempts and I have a bag full of
> postings on squeak-dev and also on the OSI list when we tried to OSI
> certify SqueakL.

Yes, i know ...

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