On 5 May 2011 18:24, Eliot Miranda <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 4 May 2011 23:39, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi chris >> > >> > >> >> You should be able to extract the code and use it in Pharo/Squeak >> >> without issue, even if it is GPL. What you can't do is include it in >> >> the distribution, since it isn't MIT. You also shouldn't study the >> >> code and write your own version of it - I believe that would be a >> >> derivative work, which would likely make it a GPL derivative. >> > >> > so it does not exist and this is better because GPL is viral and we do >> > not want it. >> > >> >> I finding it really funny that GPL were invented to help open-source >> to rise and spread, >> and now its just stands in your way, as any other closed-source >> proprietary one... >> >> >> However, if it was extracted, and you brought it in to do profiling, >> >> and then removed it afterwards, that shouldn't be an issue at all. >> >> Just remember to remove it after you no longer need it - that way the >> >> GPL code won't accidentally creep into the Pharo/Squeak code-base. >> >> >> >> Basically, this would be a great example of a project that should be >> >> an external project and not part of core (or dev). >> > >> > the problem is that this kind of philosophy goes against the spirit of >> > smalltalk >> > of been able to read and learn the code and modify it. >> >> >> I think that Teleplace has not much choice under which license to >> release this code, >> because as long as you using even portion of GPL-ed code, you are >> forced to use GPL as well. > > You have it backwards. There is *no* GPL code in OpenQwaq. If there had > been the whole project would have had to become GPL and Teleplace could not > have protected itself against others using the code. By releasing the code > as GPL Teleplace's investors retain the sole commercial rights to the code. > No-one else can use the code without their contributions becoming GPL. > Hence no-one wanting to do commercial development using OpenQwaq can do so > and protect their contributions. Teleplace's investors, however, /can/ > subsequently sell or exploit commercial rights to the code, which they still > hold.
Ah, yes.. sorry. i'm not expert in this legal stuff anyways :) Thanks for explanation. -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
