Ok still I’m not sure that we can ship a full image. 
 
I could never understand fully what is a personal license and for me this is 
super simple I do not want to read any VisualWorks
code under a License that is not MIT. This way laywers will never been able to 
tell me that I could have been influenced by protected code. 

S. 

> On 20 May 2020, at 10:19, Richard O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Cincom still has a "Personal Use Licence".
> http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/community/product-portal/trying-cincom-smalltalk/personal-use-license/
>  
> <http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/community/product-portal/trying-cincom-smalltalk/personal-use-license/>
> I am running vw8.3pul, and
> file ~/vw8.3pul/bin/linuxx86_64/visual 
> /home/ok/vw8.3pul/bin/linuxx86_64/visual: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, 
> version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter 
> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped
> it is 64-bit.
> The paid version of VW is up to 9.0, but 8.3 works for me.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 08:16, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[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.
> 
> S. 
> 
>> On 14 May 2020, at 01:40, [email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> The Siren system is a general-purpose framework for music and sound 
>> composition, processing, performance, and analysis; it is a collection of 
>> about 350 classes written in Smalltalk-80 (40 kLOC or so). Siren 9.0 works 
>> on VisualWorks Smalltalk (though the bulk has been ported to other dialects 
>> as well); Siren supports streaming I/O via OpenSoundControl (OSC), MIDI, and 
>> multi-channel audio ports. The Siren release is available via the web from 
>> the URL http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren <http://fastlabinc.com/Siren>. 
>> 
>> Siren is a programming framework and tool kit; the intended audience is 
>> Smalltalk developers, or users willing to learn Smalltalk in order to write 
>> their own applications. The built-in applications are meant as 
>> demonstrations of the use of the libraries, rather than as end-user 
>> applications. Siren is not a MIDI sequencer, nor a score notation editor, 
>> through both of these applications would be easy to implement with the Siren 
>> framework.
>> 
>> There are several elements to Siren:
>> 
>> * the Smoke music representation language (music magnitudes, events, event 
>> lists, generators, functions, and sounds);
>>     
>> * voices, schedulers and I/O drivers (real-time and file-based voices, 
>> sound, score file, OSC, and MIDI I/O);
>>     
>> * user interface components for musical applications (UI framework, tools, 
>> and widgets);
>>     
>> * several built-in applications  (editors and browsers for Smoke objects); 
>> and
>>     
>> * external library interfaces for streaming I/O and DSP math (sound/MIDI 
>> I/O, fast FFT, CSL & Loris sound analysis/resynthesis packages )
>> 
>> The best in-depth doc (book chapter) is in,
>>      http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/Doc/SirenBookChapter.pdf 
>> <http://fastlabinc.com/Siren/Doc/SirenBookChapter.pdf>
>> 
>> The read the demo code workbook (this text), go to,
>>      http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/Siren7.5.Workbook.html 
>> <http://fastlabinc.com/Siren/Siren7.5.Workbook.html>
>> or
>>      http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/Siren7.5.Workbook.pdf 
>> <http://fastlabinc.com/Siren/Siren7.5.Workbook.pdf>
>> 
>> If you like to read manuals, take a look at,
>>      http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/Manual <http://fastlabinc.com/Siren/Manual>
>> 
>> or watch the detailed Siren demo at,
>>      https://vimeo.com/120751122 <https://vimeo.com/120751122>
>> 
>> The links to get Siren9 are,
>> 
>> Web site: http://fastlabinc.com/Siren <http://fastlabinc.com/Siren>
>> 
>> Package download: http://fastlabinc.com/Siren/Siren_9.0.zip 
>> <http://fastlabinc.com/Siren/Siren_9.0.zip>
>> 
>> Github repo: https://github.com/stpope/Siren9 
>> <https://github.com/stpope/Siren9>
>> 
>> 
>> Comments solicited.
>> 
>> Stephen Pope
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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>> <http://fastlabinc.com/>
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>> <https://vimeo.com/user19434036/videos>      
>> http://heaveneverywhere.com/Reflections 
>> <http://heaveneverywhere.com/Reflections>
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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