beware GNU Smalltalk if you want to contribute to squeak

Paolo Bonzini bonzini at gnu.org
Wed Jan 9 08:38:25 UTC 2008


> The license I see at
> <http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/smalltalk/main.c?revision=1.6&root=smalltalk&view=markup>
> looks pretty clear:
> 
>  * This file is part of GNU Smalltalk.
>  *
>  * GNU Smalltalk is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
>  * Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later 
>  * version.
> 
> Doesn't look like I can just lift part of the libs from GST and use it as-is
> in something that is not as restrictive as the LGPL.

The license I see for kernel/Object.st also looks pretty clear:

| This file is part of the GNU Smalltalk class library.
|
| The GNU Smalltalk class library is free software; you can redistribute it
| and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
| as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1, or (at
| your option) any later version.

Paolo



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