On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:
On 4 May 2011 23:39, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> 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.



>>
>> -Chris
>>


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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.