Wow, I can't believe one of the more engaged developers who is current
didn't engage on this (I am not actively working on Squeak or
derivations due to financial commitments but I lurk with interest and
wait for my next opportunity to engage).
Sebastien, thanks for taking the interest. Smalltalk (and Squeak in
particular) has long struggled with licensing issues. The system is
completely open so it seems relatively pointless to encumber it with
something like GPL. For your historical interest, the community's
position on licensing (which is a little out of date as Pharo is going
MIT style I think) is found at
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/159.
Perhaps someone else who knows more about the state of pharo could
reply to this gentleman?
-Todd Blanchard
On Apr 26, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Sebastien Metrot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm the author of libnui which has been discussed here two days ago.
> (i saw this list archive in the referer stats for libnui.net and was
> curious ;-) ).
>
> Some people seemed interested in nui but had concerns about it's
> licensing. I summarized our choice of license in this wiki page:
http://redmine.libnui.net/wiki/libnui/Licensing> . We're not particularly happy with the GPL but we found no real
> other option that permitted to fulfill our requirements listed on the
> page.
>
> As others have noted C++ is a very ugly language and recreating a
> useable object model have been quite a chore. I'm curious about how we
> could change nui to make it more friendly to other languages such as
> smalltalk, knowing that C++ has always been a tad harder to
> interoperate than, for example, C.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sébastien
>
>
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