The Spec news page [1] explains the license change and anyone can easily guess that it is caused by Benjamins personal disagreements with Stef. No judgement on that from my side as this is a personal issue between the two and as I like most of us have only a few infos on that from the outside.
It is interesting that there is also a new Spec release [2] announced this week although in his last post [3] Benjamin stated "I am quiting the Pharo community, as well as the Smalltalk community". To me it looks like Benjamin want's to punish Stef - but it will affect the community and the idea WE ALL hardly work on ... Sorry but this is a more childish like reaction from his side and not a good way to solve disagreements. I can only talk about this from an outside point of view but I think nobody in our community will profit from Benjamin reaction - it makes it harder for the whole Pharo community to work with Spec and in my opinion it will be not good for Spec framework or Benjamin either. >From what I see now my personal recommendation would be decide within the >community if Spec could be a base for the future of our UI and tool building and if so rename and continue in a forked way with the MIT licensed code within the Pharo image so it will not be confused with Benjamins version, license and page. Looks like currently that this is the only way to continue with it and ensure contributions will stay single licensed/MIT licensed. We can only change the future - not the past... Thx T. [1] http://spec.st/license/gpl/mit/2014/08/15/Spec_change_license.html [2] http://spec.st/news/#Spec%202.0.0%20release [3] http://lists.pharo.org/pipermail/pharo-dev_lists.pharo.org/2014-August/099354.html
