Re: SmartEiffel opens the door

Cyril ADRIAN wrote:

> We are aware of the problem with our library licence. We will solve that
> before 2.2 is out. The licence will be either EFL2 or MIT (still being
> discussed).

For the purposes of distributing C-code generated by SmartEiffel (which
is what I want to do in the Amber for Parrot project), I prefer the MIT
licence because:

- It is well-understood by the wider (non-Eiffel) community

- It is "obvious" to the wider community that it can
  mix and match with just about anything, which will help
  when I want to get some Amber stuff included in the standard
  Parrot distribution (which is likely to be dual-licensed
  under the Perl Artistic License and GPL)

Ideally, the SmartEiffel "c2c" command would copy the copyright notice
into the generated C code when it compiles the SmartEiffel library
files. Then everything is automatically correct.

If, however, you choose the Eiffel Forum License, would you consider
changing paragraph 2 to include "generated C files" alongside "binary
programs"? Something like this, perhaps:

   2: Permission is hereby also granted to distribute binary programs
   and generated C files which depend on this package. If the binary
   program or generated C file depends on a modified version of this
   package, you are encouraged to publicly release the modified
   version of this package.

(I have appended the OSI-approved license texts to this message for
convenience.)

Regards,
Roger Browne


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