Why can't we have stuff from Sophie back to Squeak/Pharo? - only the Sophie developers are familiar with the code and they are not motivated enough to extract it
Not necessarily their task..... :-) Writing libraries and reusable components is a different project.
- the license is BSD, so the code can't be included in Pharo/Squeak
I googled for BSD MIT license compatibility and found some interesting information see for example http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/floss-license-slide.html the paragraph about BSD in http://producingoss.com/en/license-choosing.html The license might be compatible depending on the "version" of the BSD license. And if not you could extract code and then ask the developers to release it as MIT. MIT and BSD are very close (or the same depending on the version) To summarize: The statement "the license is BSD, so the code can't be included in Pharo/Squeak" is too strong. There might be some problems including code, but they may be solved easily with by writing a few emails.... --Hannes