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[Help-smalltalk] Re: [smalltalk-research] Re: [Esug-list] Google Summer
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stephane ducasse |
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[Help-smalltalk] Re: [smalltalk-research] Re: [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!! |
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Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:36:48 +0100 |
Mariano
Well I do not know anybody writing code under LGPL in Smalltalk.
So this is an issue. I think that having a license mess will not help. So we do
not care about the fact that the project
use a apporved license, we care that people can/will use it afterwards.
So LGPL is not a good idea.
Stef
On Mar 8, 2010, at 12:29 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Gilad Bracha <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm all for it, and hope that John or Eliot can mentor. Datapoints I'll add:
>
> There is some support for parsing C headers in the Newspeak system.
> Aliens have been ported to Strongtalk as well as Squeak.
>
>
> Finally - what licensing would apply if GNU Smalltalk were used? GPL is a
> big problem. Even LGPL elicits an immune response in a lot of commercial
> contexts. Is there a GSoC policy on this?
>
>
>
> Yes, as you can read here:
>
> http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#licenses
>
> it says:
>
> • What licenses do I have choose from?
> That depends on your mentoring organization. All code created by student
> participants must be released under an Open Source Initiative approved
> license. It's also extremely likely that your mentoring organization will
> have a preferred license(s) and that you will need to release your code under
> the license(s) chosen by that organization.
>
>
> And as you can read in the link, LGPL seems to be accepted...so, from the
> GSoC point of view there is no problem with the license.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mariano
>
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> 5) Work on a cross-dialect foreign function call interface and implement it
> in at least two dialects. Candidates include Alien and GNU Smalltalk's
> CObject (using existing implementation has the advantage of having to
> implement in only _one_ other dialect!). Bonus points for implementing a C
> parser that would be able to construct bindings. GNU Smalltalk already
> contains a C preprocessor implementation.
>
>
> I think this project could be a good idea for GSoC. As I said, I would love
> if it (optionally at least) could not to block the complete VM while a
> function is being called.
>
> I would also love what you said: parse .h of libraries and automatically
> create the wrapper for Smalltalk. At least create the invocations to the
> functions, and map the structures to objects...
>
> We need to write a title, a little description and if possible titles like
> "technical details", "benefits to the students" and "benefits to the
> community".
>
> If you are interested please send it to me and I add it to the list.
>
> We also need a mentor (and a student, of course)...anyone is willing to do it
> ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Mariano
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers, Gilad
>
- [Help-smalltalk] Re: [Pharo-project] [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!!, (continued)
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- [Help-smalltalk] Re: [Pharo-project] [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!!, Lawson English, 2010/03/06
- [Help-smalltalk] Re: [Pharo-project] [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!!, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/03/06
- [Help-smalltalk] Re: [Pharo-project] [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!!, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/03/06
- [Help-smalltalk] Re: [Pharo-project] [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!!, Gilad Bracha, 2010/03/06
- [Help-smalltalk] Re: [Pharo-project] [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!!, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/03/06
[Help-smalltalk] Re: [squeak-dev] Re: [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!!, Julian Fitzell, 2010/03/06
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