Marcus Denker a écrit :
> 
> On 20.10.2005, at 23:46, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> 
>>
>> I've read through them but I'm not an expert on licenses.  Can you  
>> give me
>> your reactions to using either one of these license models for our
>> cryptography packages?  What would the general reaction be?  Has  anyone
>> compared the models enough to tell me the difference between Squeak  and
>> LGPL?  For LGPL I understood the extra requirements to separate
>> functionality of the package form the applications so that it can  be run
>> separately and the source code availability requirements which  
>> considering
>> that this is smalltalk and source is always available we can  include the
>> license on the class comment to make sure that developers include this
>> notice in their applications.  We have not decided to go this  route; 
>> we are
>> just exploring the options.
>>
> 
> LGPL has the problem that it seems to only work for C based system with
> real "linked" libraries. If you add the code of a an LGPLed smalltalk  
> framework,
> it could be argued that you are not linking but reusing, thus forcing  
> LGPL on the
> complete image. (I think in situations like these, people add a  
> preamble to the
> license to explain what they consider to be ok. I think GNU Smalltalk  
> did that)
> 
> For Squeak, I think we decided to use the MIT license for all new  
> stuff, with
> the goal to eventually have everything with that license.

Yes, we have to choose just one licence for all new Squeak development.
MIT is a nice one and you have not the viral problem like with GPL and i 
think it's easier for corporate acceptance like Cincom.
Tweak is under MIT, Croquet is under MIT.

Do crypto export limitations outside US still exist ? Or there is no 
more problems like that ?


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