Interesting idea.

Thoughts:


Maybe not in utilities, but in an author class, like Pharo.
Check the pharo thread about author.

if it is free text, how do you harvest the same licenses mispelled
(mit, MIT, Mit),
or with spaces (Public license, Apache, APL, Apache Public License,
ApachePublicLicense, etc)

What are the pros against the message of "everything commited to ...
it is by default MIT"
in a visible place on the repository.

Cheers,
Miguel Cobá


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Igor Stasenko<siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> on a recent SOB meeting someone recalled the idea of adding a
> 'license' field to method stamps.
> I proposed this maybe a year ago, but at that time, it was seem to
> have a short life period, because of upcoming Spoon release, which
> contains a full method history and supports a much better organized
> method history/author/license tracking.
>
> In our current state, when we have a /trunk , we need, however some
> kind of assurance that all submissions going to trunk is
> license-clean.
> So, it is like that proposed change gives us a quick & fast recipe how
> to assure that.
>
> Please review  the mantis entry: http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6993
>
> And lets discuss openly, the pros and cons of this change.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
>