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MIT strikes back (was Re: [smalltalk-research] Re: [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!!)

Paolo Bonzini-2
On 03/10/2010 05:06 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>> What the starting point is will depend on to what extent Cog has
>> been open sourced  (Teleplace may choose to open source
>> single-threaded Cog initially, keeping back the threaded FFI for
>> a while, it may not open source Cog at all; we'll see :) ).
> May be I the only one to notice the:)   which I have problem to
> understand since for me it announces that COG may not be
> open-source.

Isn't this what you wanted to allow companies to do, when you chose the
MIT license?  I don't understand, why should you care?

I see some irony...

Paolo


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Re: MIT strikes back (was Re: [smalltalk-research] Re: [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!!)

Stéphane Ducasse
> What the starting point is will depend on to what extent Cog has
>>> been open sourced  (Teleplace may choose to open source
>>> single-threaded Cog initially, keeping back the threaded FFI for
>>> a while, it may not open source Cog at all; we'll see :) ).
>> May be I the only one to notice the:)   which I have problem to
>> understand since for me it announces that COG may not be
>> open-source.
>
> Isn't this what you wanted to allow companies to do, when you chose the
> MIT license?  I don't understand, why should you care?
>
> I see some irony...
Not me. Freedom of choice is a political attitude. I understand GPL goal but I
do not adhere to it. I respect people pushing it but not in my way. I'm not sure
that we should debate that here but we do not have the single answer.



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