[Squeakfoundation] Allow MIT-licensed code to be part of "Squeak Official"?

[goran.krampe at bluefish.se]

Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin at texoma.net> wrote:
[SNIP]
> > Yes, and I agree. MIT should be fine. So I vote for allowing it. But
> > only it.
> 
> I think allowing MIT would be great. In fact I would think any standard 
> as free as SqL or better should be allowed. Why only MIT?

Definitely not. If we mix up a lot of licenses we will make it more or
less impossible for people to know under what circumstances they can use
Squeak.

> BSD is also a standard well known license that may be more comfortable 
> to corporate types. MIT is great for individuals and some corporations 
> might be perfectly happy with MIT but for some BSD is better.

I hardly think the difference between those is significant.

Nevertheless, my point is that allowing MIT and Squeak-L gives us a
mixed situation that we still can handle. Adding more licenses to the
soup would IMHO be disastrous. And that is btw also the view of Andrew
Greenberg, our own specialist. Though it was a long time ago I saw
Andrew post.
 
regards, Göran