Mariano

Well I do not know anybody writing code under LGPL in Smalltalk.
So this is an issue. I think that having a license mess will not help. So we do not care about the fact that the project 
use a apporved license, we care that people can/will use it afterwards.
So LGPL is not a good idea.

Stef

On Mar 8, 2010, at 12:29 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Gilad Bracha <gbracha at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm all for it, and hope that John or Eliot can mentor. Datapoints I'll add:
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> There is some support for parsing C headers in the Newspeak system.
> Aliens have been ported to Strongtalk as well as Squeak.
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> Finally - what licensing would apply if GNU Smalltalk were used?  GPL is a big problem. Even LGPL elicits an immune response in a lot of commercial contexts.  Is there a GSoC policy on this?
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> Yes, as you can read here:
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> http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#licenses
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> it says:
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> 	• What licenses do I have choose from?
> That depends on your mentoring organization. All code created by student participants must be released under an Open Source Initiative approved license. It's also extremely likely that your mentoring organization will have a preferred license(s) and that you will need to release your code under the license(s) chosen by that organization.
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> And as you can read in the link, LGPL seems to be accepted...so, from the GSoC point of view there is no problem with the license. 
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> Cheers
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> Mariano
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> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 5) Work on a cross-dialect foreign function call interface and implement it in at least two dialects.  Candidates include Alien and GNU Smalltalk's CObject (using existing implementation has the advantage of having to implement in only _one_ other dialect!).  Bonus points for implementing a C parser that would be able to construct bindings.  GNU Smalltalk already contains a C preprocessor implementation.
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> I think this project could be a good idea for GSoC.  As I said, I would love if it (optionally at least) could not to block the complete VM while a function is being called. 
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> I would also love what you said: parse .h of libraries and automatically create the wrapper for Smalltalk. At least create the invocations to the functions, and map the structures to objects...
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> We need to write a title, a little description and if possible titles like "technical details", "benefits to the students" and "benefits to the community".
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> If you are interested please send it to me and I add it to the list.
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> We also need a mentor (and a student, of course)...anyone is willing to do it ?
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> Cheers
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> Mariano
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> Cheers, Gilad
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