Vince, Thanks for this clarification. For me it means I can use my fork for the short term. (I can walk to the exit instead of run). Since the license is clearly not MIT, the rug can be pull at whim, so this code can’t be a long term solution.
Yanni On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 7:13 AM <vin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Norbert > > Posting this here in pharo-users as I am not a member of pharo-dev. > > I also emailed David Gorisek late last year regarding the license (for > Dolphin Smalltalk) and this was his reply. He wrote that I needed only to > mark the repo as a fork and attach the copyright notice: > > > David Gorisek <david.gori...@....com> > > 12:35 AM (9 hours ago) > > to me > > Dear Vince, > > OmniBase is most definitely not abandonware because it is actively being > used, improved and even supported for paying customers. We also have a > version for D7 but since OmniBase is used as a DB repository for STS we > don't use Github. In my company we use a central STS repository which is > accessible over HTTPS and we keep all our code there so I haven't had time > to try Github yet. > > There are many versions and forks of OmniBase circling around because many > people have done re-porting on their own for whatever reasons but these > ports were not approved and are not supported by us. So, if you want to > place your fork on Github you just need to indicate that it is a fork and > that the original code is Copyright (c) by David Gorisek and then write > what changes you made in your fork. > > Thank yout and best regards, > > David Gorisek > E-RACUNI d.o.o. > Maribor, Slovenia > > > Vince >
