[squeak-dev] Re: facelifting the trunk?
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Sep 16 07:31:24 UTC 2009
Andreas Raab wrote:
> David Corking wrote:
>> If the community agrees to get code from somewhere else (in this case
>> from Newspeak) then that code may have an MIT-compatible license. My
>> question is: does Squeak have a policy to say whether such foreign
>> code may be committed to the trunk?
>
> All source code committed to the trunk must be available as MIT. In
> other words, it is not acceptable to commit code to the trunk that's not
> available under MIT. No exceptions.
PS. I realize that the reasoning may not be obvious so here it is
spelled out explicitly: Basically, we don't want to make judgments about
what licenses are compatible with what other licenses. We're not
lawyers, we have really no clue what the result of combining different
licenses is. We need a simple story so the quid pro quo is: If you want
your stuff in the trunk you must make it available as MIT, so that our
story remains simple and consistent and keeps the lawyers off our
collective behinds. If you can't do that, well, tough luck, you might
want to think ahead the next time you choose a license.
Cheers,
- Andreas
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