Levente, I stand by the analogy of GPL's history and the more emotional undertones of the current discussion. Dismissing it won't make it go away. Bill ________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Levente Uzonyi [leves@elte.hu] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 6:47 PM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] WebClient-Core port to Pharo 1.1 final On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
GPL is designed to hold people (mostly commercial interests) hostage. Some of what is going on here sounds the same: it's open but not really. A web client is not so terribly difficult to write that we should compromise on licensing in order to use one. I have a *terribly* simple one that I can port if there is interest. IIRC, I used it to download some large files, but don't expect much.
GPL was just an example for an open source license with restrictions, it has nothing to do with WebClient. Btw WebClient is far from simple (it's also a server, handles redirects, special responses, can support SSL, etc). Levente
________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Levente Uzonyi [leves@elte.hu] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 6:25 PM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] WebClient-Core port to Pharo 1.1 final
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
Levente Uzonyi <leves@elte.hu> writes:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
I suggest that the people that want and know, group together and build an open-source one.
Why do you have to have your "own" library?
Did I say "pharo library"? reread carefully I said an "open-source one".
What I get from Andreas' words is that he's willing to make it open source if it won't be forked. Hm I think this is impossible. If it's OS it's up to whomever get its hand on it. Or am I mistaken?
Just think about GPL, it's open source, but you can't fork the code if you don't release your changes as GPL too.
Levente
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