Chronos

Brian Rice water at tunes.org
Wed Jul 20 01:51:01 UTC 2005


Eek! That means I can't port it to Slate (http://slate.tunes.org/).  
What's the point of that?

On Jul 19, 2005, at 5:06 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Looks interesting, but I sure hope you'll get your licensing terms  
> in order. In particular this:
>
>     "4. You must agree not to port or translate Chronos into any  
> programming language whose syntax, semantics and computational  
> model are not substantially compliant to the ANSI Smalltalk  
> Language Specification.  Porting Chronos to non-Smalltalk  
> programming languages is strictly prohibited.  However, you are  
> welcome to enter into negotiations with the copyright owner for  
> permission to port Chronos to non-Smalltalk programming languages.   
> In some cases, permission may be granted at no cost or other  
> encumberance."
>
> Unless you are trying to find out whether anyone actually reads the  
> license (in which case you've earned yourself a pat on the back for  
> adding a really creative little clause to your license ;-) I think  
> you should seriously rethink the attitude express by this clause.  
> Surely you realize that niche languages like Smalltalk would be  
> hurt more than other systems if everybody would pick up this  
> attitude and have do-not-port-to-languages-i-don't-like clauses.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
> Alan L. Lovejoy wrote:
>
>> This is a low-key announcment of the availability of an early beta  
>> version  of The Chronos Date/Time Library (for VisualWorks  
>> Smalltalk.)
>> It's a beta version because a) the documentation is only 80%  
>> complete, and  b) support for leap seconds has not yet been  
>> implemented.  It's an  **early** beta version because it has not  
>> yet been tested by a large user  base.  However, there are no  
>> known bugs.
>> You can find out more, and obtain a copy for evaluation, at the  
>> Chronos  Web Site: http://www.chronos-st.org.
>> --Alan

--
-Brian




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