Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Since you've got a lawyer's ear, can you ask him/her if it would be kosher to keep the parts running on top of the vm under the current license (vm license := GPL, image := BSD)?
I've been doing that for GNU Smalltalk (with s/BSD/LGPL/) for years. It does not force anybody who wants to distribute a program, to release it under the GPL.
The image is just the input data to the VM. It is not part in any way of it.
The above is from a thread in the strongtalk group http://groups-beta.google.com/group/strongtalk-general/browse_frm/thread/b2750795b0ba45e6/304082b9316695c5?hl=en#304082b9316695c5 My question is: Is it ok to deploy applications (on an internal company network) using GNU Smalltalk without GPLing the source? What about the foreign function interface? Isn't that part of the VM? Cheers, Krishna -- I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble ! - Helen Keller _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
