---- On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:35:28 -0700 Stéphane Ducasse wrote ----
hi guys
after get burned during some years about the license of Squeak. What do you think to force people to put a license on projects on squeaksource? I have the impression that it would avoid bad situation in the future. Even if I could live with it like it is too. This is just that we just wait to get bitten...
There is an HTML parser on SS with a non-compete clause in its license. There are many other projects on SS that either have no explicit license or are licensed in a non-OSI-approved manner. I have thought of complaining in the past, but nowhere on SS (at least nowhere I could find) does it say that code uploaded to it must be open source; in fact, the site doesn't seem to even mention "open source" at all. If SS is supposed to be the Google Code or Source Forge of the Smalltalk community, only accepting open source code, it should be upfront about it; likewise if it is open to all Smalltalk code, including proprietary.