Paolo, Perhaps I'm getting this out of context, but you have done something *very* difficult to do: you've offended me (on Stef's behalf). Asking Stef to "do something constructive" is like asking asking a shark to swim. As for GPL in any variant, I have never trusted it, and see no justifiable advantage over something like MIT or BSD. Your (apparent) reaction to Stef is only deepening my preference for simplicity of licensing. Bill -----Original Message----- From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Paolo Bonzini Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 11:05 AM To: GNU Smalltalk; Pharo Development; ESUG Mailing list Cc: stephane ducasse Subject: [Pharo-project] Please: less license blahblah, more actual progress on the issue On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 18:53, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks thanks thanks thanks for a refresh on that! Thanks!

Stef, instead of thanking five times, why don't you try to do something constructive? The GPLv3 includes a system of granting Additional Permissions. This system has already been used by GCC and Autoconf. Let's develop a set of additional permissions that we believe do not "taint" the whole image. I placed a starting point at http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/bonzinip/towards-permissive-copyleft-license-d... [To those that followed the entire thread: this is totally independent of how any GSoC code related to GNU Smalltalk will be licensed]. Paolo _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project