>>>>> "Stéphane" == Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net> writes:

Stéphane> I would suggest you switch to Pharo: it's there exactly to fit your
Stéphane> expectations. Then you can let Squeak live its life, be it overly eccentric.

For some, what I'm about to say is obvious.  But for others, this might be a
deal killer.

Once Squeak core is included as part of the SFC, it will be a lot easier for a
business to base its work on Squeak.  If there's a question of code heritage,
the SFLC will assist to provide "we stand together" support.

For Etoys, this has already happened, in that VPRI is willing to put *its*
legal resources behind the current code base.

I know Pharo has just announced "mit license for everything", but there's
no organization with other-than-volunteer resources that can certify that.

And given that Pharo is derived from the same original apple-licensed
code that had troubled Etoys and now taints Squeak core (until the 4.0
effort is complete), I see this as a problem.

For me, that means I cannot recommend Pharo for business development.

What I would *like* to see, and am working towards as a member of the
Squeak Leadership Team is:

(a) squeak core gets clean MIT license, and joins SFC
(b) Pharo's license-known updates get rewritten to apply to squeak core

This would make something that is equivalent to Pharo, but with a clean
license history.

In essence, I'd like to bring Pharo "back into the fold", because there *are*
advantages to having a clean license history that *is* supported by someone's
paid lawyers, just as there are advantages to have "modernized" the legacy
Squeak look-and-feel.

I know this will mean some work to unruffle some feathers and make things work
again for everyone.  But I want that to happen.

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