Trygve Reenskaug wrote:
With all due respect, I am reluctant to sign this agreement. It commits me to whatever might be published at the given URL at any time in the future. I wonder why you didn't make the agreement concrete by copying the current text into it?

And I thought that I paid attention to these things, but I never noticed this. I think this sounds reasonable, and indeed beneficial.
cheers -ben


Current contents of <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>:

    "Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
    obtaining a copy
     of this software and associated documentation files (the
    "Software"), to deal
     in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
    the rights
     to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
    and/or sell
     copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
     furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
    included in
     all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
    EXPRESS OR
     IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
    MERCHANTABILITY,
     FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
    SHALL THE
     AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
     LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
    ARISING FROM,
     OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
    DEALINGS IN
     THE SOFTWARE."

I have no problem with signing this, but I have a problem with signing a carte blanche.
--Trygve



On 26.09.2014 07:25, stepharo wrote:
Hi guys

do not forget to sign the license agreement
http://files.pharo.org/media/PharoSoftwareDistributionAgreement.pdf
and send us your picture to be added to
    http://pharo.org/about

Stef






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