Well, I certainly care..  Stef wasn't remarking about license rights,
he said didn't understand the smiley face.  Frankly, I don't either.
After years of teasing from Bryce and now this?  What a crushing
disappointment.



On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Nicolas Cellier
<nicolas.cellier.aka.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/3/10 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr>:
>>> What the starting point is will depend on to what extent Cog has
>>>>> been open sourced  (Teleplace may choose to open source
>>>>> single-threaded Cog initially, keeping back the threaded FFI for
>>>>> a while, it may not open source Cog at all; we'll see :) ).
>>>> May be I the only one to notice the:)   which I have problem to
>>>> understand since for me it announces that COG may not be
>>>> open-source.
>>>
>>> Isn't this what you wanted to allow companies to do, when you chose the
>>> MIT license?  I don't understand, why should you care?
>
> We  shouldn't. Well, except if previous annoucements strongly
> suggested this would be the case...
>
>>>
>>> I see some irony...
>> Not me. Freedom of choice is a political attitude. I understand GPL goal but 
>> I
>> do not adhere to it. I respect people pushing it but not in my way. I'm not 
>> sure
>> that we should debate that here but we do not have the single answer.
>>
>>
>
> Not sure the goals differ much, but indeed these are two radically
> different strategies.
> The question is: would COG have ever started under a GPL derivative?
> Who knows?
> Since it did not happen, current choice is between an hypothetical
> something MIT or nothing...
> Bah, at least we already get a closure VM in Squeak.
>
> Nicolas
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