Bruce Badger
2011-08-24 15:14:58 UTC
Deal all,
Sport is the *Smalltalk Portability* library, hence the name. Sport can
be used to insulate a Smalltalk program from many of the things which
are implemented differently in different Smalltalk dialects, which means
a program which uses Sport can be run on any supported Smalltalk dialect
without any changes being made to source code. Sport is currently
ported to More here:
http://wiki.openskills.org/OpenSkills/Sport
Three of the developers shown on the above page (Janko, Lenandro and
myself) happened to be at ESUG 2011 in Edinburgh. The topic of changing
the license of Sport has come up before, and as something which we would
like to see being ubiquitous, but it has not been moved along, not least
because many people have contributed to Sport by creating
implementations for the various dialects.
The three of us at ESUG agreed that it would be sensible to propose
moving all Sport implementations to a BSD-like license, and since the
MIT license appears to be a widely used such license among Smalltalkers
we'd like to propose re licensing Sport with:
http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
To be able to say with certainty that Sport as a whole is licensed under
the above MIT license we need to get a written OK from each and every
one of the authors/contributors.
One of the key parts of Sport is the test suite written by Leandro
Caniglia. This should be taken to be the definitive expression of what
must be supported by an implementation of Sport. Leandro (one of the
three at ESUG) has agreed that his tests can also be placed under the
MIT license ... but it could be good if he could confirm that by
responding here :-)
Until we have a response from all authors/contributors, nothing changes
so, if you are an author/contributor for an implementation of Sport,
could you please think about this and let us know what you think. If
you're happy with placing your work on Sport under the MIT license, or
if you have something to say about the proposal, please respond to this
post. Please also pass on this post to anyone who has contributed to
Sport and ask them to post a response to this message.
Thanks,
Bruce
Sport is the *Smalltalk Portability* library, hence the name. Sport can
be used to insulate a Smalltalk program from many of the things which
are implemented differently in different Smalltalk dialects, which means
a program which uses Sport can be run on any supported Smalltalk dialect
without any changes being made to source code. Sport is currently
ported to More here:
http://wiki.openskills.org/OpenSkills/Sport
Three of the developers shown on the above page (Janko, Lenandro and
myself) happened to be at ESUG 2011 in Edinburgh. The topic of changing
the license of Sport has come up before, and as something which we would
like to see being ubiquitous, but it has not been moved along, not least
because many people have contributed to Sport by creating
implementations for the various dialects.
The three of us at ESUG agreed that it would be sensible to propose
moving all Sport implementations to a BSD-like license, and since the
MIT license appears to be a widely used such license among Smalltalkers
we'd like to propose re licensing Sport with:
http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
To be able to say with certainty that Sport as a whole is licensed under
the above MIT license we need to get a written OK from each and every
one of the authors/contributors.
One of the key parts of Sport is the test suite written by Leandro
Caniglia. This should be taken to be the definitive expression of what
must be supported by an implementation of Sport. Leandro (one of the
three at ESUG) has agreed that his tests can also be placed under the
MIT license ... but it could be good if he could confirm that by
responding here :-)
Until we have a response from all authors/contributors, nothing changes
so, if you are an author/contributor for an implementation of Sport,
could you please think about this and let us know what you think. If
you're happy with placing your work on Sport under the MIT license, or
if you have something to say about the proposal, please respond to this
post. Please also pass on this post to anyone who has contributed to
Sport and ask them to post a response to this message.
Thanks,
Bruce