Andy Burnett wrote:

Hello,

I am posting here, because I couldn't find a Spec specific list.

Two things:

1. The colour scheme for all the code examples on the site seems to have gone very odd. The text is now a light blue/green on a white background. Almost completely illegible. Has someone changed a css file?

Do have have a specific url?
http://spec.st looks fine to me.

1. I noticed in the news section that the license has changed to GPL, because of a disagreement with the direction of Pharo. ��Could someone explain what the disagreement was, and whether this is something we should be concerned about?

Cheers

Andy

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It has not been explained beyond it being mostly a personality clash.�� There was some final technical issue that went against some existing Smalltalk conventions, but there was not much discussion brought to the community on that conflict.�� Note the Spec code already in Pharo is MIT licensed, so there is no concern about that.�� I guess in a way it shows how the MIT is more-free than the GPL, that such can occur.�� Of course, the reverse cannot.��

I would be concerned about loading external-Spec into a Pharo based project. Although the new dual license seems written to allow parties other than Pharo to use external-Spec in a non-GPL project, the implications of how that might contaminate a Pharo based project is not clear.�� Also I guess discussion of external-Spec probably won't proceed on this list, so until I see news of a separate Spec mailing list to collaborate with users and other developers, it would seem that developer has struck out on his own.�� Pharo-internal-Spec will continue development here under the MIT license.

cheers -ben