You did say to get a fork, but it wasn’t clear whether it was legit to use it. I’ll probably just update the license, and eventually remove the fork.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 10:59 AM Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: > > > Am 09.08.2022 um 16:56 schrieb Yanni Chiu <yannix...@gmail.com>: > > 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. > > Yes, that's what I wrote in discord to you. Sorry for making you panicking > ;) > > Norbert > > 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 >> > >
