As the issue is about potential reuse of GNU Smalltalk code snippets /
classes regarding Unicode the most straightforward thing is to ask
Paolo Bonzini (http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/bonzinip) if he permits
the reuse under an MIT license.

So far no code has been identified which would be needed under an MIT license.

HTH
Hannes

On 12/7/15, Martin Bähr <mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Excerpts from Martin Bähr's message of 2015-12-07 16:17:28 +0100:
>> randal schwartz suggests a cleanroom approach, though i personally think
>> that
>> is overkill. if a cleanroom approach were really necessary than i would
>> never
>> be allowed to switch jobs because once i have been working on one
>> companys
>> private code i would be tainted for life, as i could accidentally
>> reproduce the
>> same code in my next job.
>>
>> however, either you get the GNU-smalltalk authors to relicense their
>> unicode
>> classes under the MIT license, or they will need to be rewritten from
>> scratch.
>>
>> i would suggest asking them in the name of having a common code-base for
>> all
>> smalltalks.
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-January/123817.html
> is worth reading in that context:
>
>   So it's mainly an issue of being willing to cooperate.  I think all GNU
>   Smalltalk people (almost all?) are and it's also true at least for some
>   Squeak people.  If somebody took a package (several thousands lines of
>   code, etc.) wholesale, ported it to Squeak, and licensed it under MIT on
>   SqueakMap that would be copyright violation.  But everything can be done
>   "cum grano salis".  Nobody is going to sue you if you copy an interface
>   from GNU Smalltalk, reimplement in Squeak (for fun!), but you did look
>   at the method comments in GNU Smalltalk -- and OMG maybe you got a
>   glimpse of the source code just below!  Copyright does not protect
>   having similar implementations.
>
>   I think we're all for interoperability and for exchange of opinions
>   within the communities.
>
> so there you have the open invitation to go and ask...
>
> and read this
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-January/123838.html
> for a good summary on the issue.
>
> greetings, martin.
>
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