[Cuis-dev] Politics of Smalltalk

[Casey Ransberger]

Hi Douglas! No, the license wasn’t chosen because the GPL hates snapshots or something. I mean look at all the hypervisors. 

There was a problem with the image in that the lawyers at (what’s that thing called? Something mumble freedom conservancy or some such?) hadn’t encountered this image thing before. 

Their guidance was that we should put the license at the top of every source code file. People tried to explain Smalltalk, lawyers blinked, eventually Andreas Raab wrote to me and told me to put the license in as a comment at the beginning of .sources file, and that seemed to settle it. 

You can see my other email on the choice of license, or also not. 

—Casey

> On Jun 28, 2020, at 4:24 AM, Douglas Brebner via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
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>> On 13/06/2020 19:46, Philip Bernhart via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> So I always wondered what the political statements and movements
>> were in Smalltalk or even Cuis Smalltalk. Squeak, Pharo and Cuis
>> did chose the very political MIT License as their License of choice.
> Dunno about the rest but wasn't the MIT license chosen mostly because of how badly the GPL family interacts with image based systems?
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