http://forum.world.st/Board-clarification-around-Spec-td4775346.html
On 03 Sep 2014, at 10:24, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: > The Spec news page [1] explains the license change and anyone can easily > guess that it is caused > by Benjamins personal disagreements with Stef. No judgement on that from my > side as this > is a personal issue between the two and as I like most of us have only a few > infos on that from > the outside. > > It is interesting that there is also a new Spec release [2] announced this > week although in his > last post [3] Benjamin stated "I am quiting the Pharo community, as well as > the Smalltalk community". > > To me it looks like Benjamin want's to punish Stef - but it will affect the > community and the idea > WE ALL hardly work on ... > Sorry but this is a more childish like reaction from his side and not a good > way to solve disagreements. > > I can only talk about this from an outside point of view but I think nobody > in our community > will profit from Benjamin reaction - it makes it harder for the whole Pharo > community to work > with Spec and in my opinion it will be not good for Spec framework or > Benjamin either. > > From what I see now my personal recommendation would be decide within the > community if Spec > could be a base for the future of our UI and tool building and if so rename > and continue in a > forked way with the MIT licensed code within the Pharo image so it will not > be confused > with Benjamins version, license and page. > > Looks like currently that this is the only way to continue with it and ensure > contributions > will stay single licensed/MIT licensed. > > We can only change the future - not the past... > > Thx > T. > > [1] http://spec.st/license/gpl/mit/2014/08/15/Spec_change_license.html > [2] http://spec.st/news/#Spec%202.0.0%20release > [3] > http://lists.pharo.org/pipermail/pharo-dev_lists.pharo.org/2014-August/099354.html >
