[squeak-dev] How to rewrite a license restricted method?

Matthew Fulmer tapplek at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 19:35:52 UTC 2009


On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:56:36AM -0800, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>   Hi, Ken,
> 
> > Thanks to the efforts of many including Yoshiki Ohshima and Matthew
> > Fulmer we have made some real progress on a 'license clean' version of
> > Squeak.  But we are now at the phase where we have some code for which
> > it appears we are not going to get a relicensing agreement.  So at this
> > point it's either remove it or replace it.
> > 
> > Thanks to Matthew publishing the history tools I've started to try to
> > help out with this and have quickly learned that I really don't know
> > what to do.  I'm going to present an example here and I'm asking you for
> > your considered opinion.
> 
>   At least, For the methods that also exists in Etoys 4.0, I don't
> think it is fruitful to bring in more scrutiny...

That's a good point. If the audit lists a method that is part of
etoys 4.0, a reasonable fix is to file it out of etoys 4.0 and
into 3.10.

http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/etoys-dev-4.0.zip

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Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/



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