On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:16 AM Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Steven this is cool to see that Siren is living and kicking. > Last year I was browsing the old site and I was sad because I thought it > was dead. > Your OSC looks better than the one in Pharo even if we used it > successfully to connect interactive tables with a HCI research group. > > If you need help to migrate from VW let us know because it would be great > to have Siren working in Pharo. > I did not see any Unit tests and the tests saved us when we migrated > Moose. Sometimes we even only kept them because they were > better than the implementation. It took us around six months and we got > free :) > And we have some contacts that would be interested in London. We could put > you in contact. > > Now just some questions and you may know the answer so I ask > > I was thinking but I may be totally wrong that it was forbidden to give VW > images and that the current license > was for personal use only. Long time ago the shrink process was removing > the compiler. Now I saw that your image is 42mb. > > Personally I do not want to download any VisualWorks distribution and sign > their licenses because I want to stay cristal clear > on ANY license and possible issues. I did not look at Visualworks since > 2008 and I feel clean and I will stay like that. > > So I imagine that I’m not allowed to use your software. I’m not good in > music sadly so there is no frustration from my side. > > You mention that people can use a non-commercial version of VW but this > license does not exist anymore. > Is there a 64 bits version of VW because VW7.5 starts to show its age and > on recent mac you only have 64 bits. > > > Some people may think that we are just over the top on open-source but > this is not by accident that we took the responsibility to create Pharo. > We could not distribute Moose our open-source platform so after 10 years > of hard work we had to do something. And we created Pharo. > And the problem we got were with the previous version (the non commercial) > of the Cincom license and the new one is even more restrictive. > Some friends of mine told me that some lawyers were starting to get picky > and send letters around. > So watch out. > > BTW I did not see the license of Siren on the git repo. If I may suggest > one, > BSD/MIT are nice, avoid GPL because it means that nobody serious on > Smalltalk will ever look at your system and contribute. > > I found the project interesting, but without a clear licence MIT, I can be involved unfortunately. Regards, -- Serge Stinckwic h https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich
