Trygve
We took exactly the same license process and text than squeak. This way
people cannot argue that this is different
because pharo is based on Squeak. It took squeak a large effort to
relicense the code and we rewrote missing methods
double blind to get clean.
Stef
On 26/9/14 10:19, 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?
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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