Paolo,

Perhaps I'm getting this out of context, but you have done something *very* 
difficult to do: you've offended me (on Stef's behalf).  Asking Stef to "do 
something constructive" is like asking asking a shark to swim.

As for GPL in any variant, I have never trusted it, and see no justifiable 
advantage over something like MIT or BSD.  Your (apparent) reaction to Stef is 
only deepening my preference for simplicity of licensing.

Bill



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paolo Bonzini
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 11:05 AM
To: GNU Smalltalk; Pharo Development; ESUG Mailing list
Cc: stephane ducasse
Subject: [Pharo-project] Please: less license blahblah, more actual progress on 
the issue

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 18:53, stephane ducasse <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> Thanks thanks thanks thanks for a refresh on that!
> Thanks!

Stef, instead of thanking five times, why don't you try to do something 
constructive?

The GPLv3 includes a system of granting Additional Permissions.  This system 
has already been used by GCC and Autoconf.  Let's develop a set of additional 
permissions that we believe do not "taint" the whole image.  I placed a 
starting point at 
http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/bonzinip/towards-permissive-copyleft-license-dynamic-languages

[To those that followed the entire thread: this is totally independent of how 
any GSoC code related to GNU Smalltalk will be licensed].

Paolo

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