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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