Squeak License OSD-compliance
Zooko
zooko at zooko.com
Wed Feb 27 22:12:45 UTC 2002
Cees:
> As far as basic GPL compatibility goes as in "combine with GPL'ed code and
> redistribute", I don't see any problems with the current Squeak License.
> However, I see problems in accepting GPL'ed code in the base distribution
> because of the viral effects - that was what I was thinking of.
This sounds normal to me. Python, for example, comes under a GPL-compatible
license (as of June 2001). The interpreter is under the Python license (which
has "can combine with proprietary code and redistribute: YES"). There are some
optional modules in the standard library which use GPL'ed such as libreadline.
Therefore if you want to integrate the Python interpreter into your proprietary,
redistributed application (such as is done in several commercial games), you
must not use any of the optional modules which are GPL'ed.
I see no reason in principle why the same solution wouldn't work for Squeak.
Regards,
Zooko
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