I agree with Diego here and I'd like to ask Randal to stop spreading 
fear here and start treat licenses in spirit first, then by the letter. 
And in spirit I think GPL (and especially LGPL for Smalltalk case) is 
just fine. So, please, keep us out of those license wars. Those wars are 
not ours!

Best regards
Janko

Diego Fernández wrote:
> Sorry but the subject of this mail sounds like FUD to me.
> 
> The Smalltalk community is really small, and Pablo Bonzini (the 
> maintainer of GST) is also very active on this list.
> If I want to port something from GST to Squeak is very simple: I talk to 
> Pablo and the community of GST (which is usually is part of the Squeak 
> community too) and create a package with LGPL license (or LGPL/MIT or 
> whatever)... so I can use it both in Squeak and GST, no big deal. (in 
> SqueakMap there is a lot of packages with LGPL license).
> 
> We are people that can talk each other, not robots driven by license rules.
> 
> Regards
> Diego
> 
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 
>>
>> Basically, keep in mind that GNU Smalltalk is GPL, and therefore,
>> incompatible with Squeak's license.  Oops.  Don't look inside.  Keep
>> a safe "clean-room" distance from any code in GST.
>>
>> Also posted on
>> <http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/beware-gnu-smalltalk-if-you-work-on-squeak.html>. 
>>
>>
>> --Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 
>> 777 0095
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>>
> 
> 
> 

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Janko Mivšek
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Smalltalk Web Application Server
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