On Jan 29, 2013, at 7:21 AM, "Peter H. Meadows"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> So? That doesn't mean we can't run it in Pharo, does it?
>
GPL is very complicated in Smalltalk. As soon as you distribute the image, the
viral part kicks
in.
It's even a question if this means that the MIT parts then magically have to be
GPL, too
(which they can not).
I think the FSF counts MIT as compatible in the sense that you can
mix code bases without having to make the MIT code GPL, but of course the more
strong
one is the only one that matters when the overall system is distributed
together.
It is hard to find a reason why anyone would invest into a code base like that
(other than
the company that has the copyright so for them, they can use another license
when distributing).
Even the FSF uses a less strict license for code that people are supposed to
link to, a Linux
where every program would be forced to be GPL would never have been successful.
You can't build a platform like this.
Marcus
