Re: Status of GOO
nitralime <[email protected]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:45:38 +0200
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============2012533227== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------070801040503030009080208" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070801040503030009080208 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! Thank you very much for this info! Do you know (based on you own experience) how mature the current implementation of GOO is? Best regards Nik On 07/07/2010 11:34 PM, Lawrence E. Bakst wrote: > It seems so. The creator Jonathan Bachrach has left MIT a few years ago and is now working in "industry". I tried several times to get him to change the Goo license and I got the feeling he is just very busy right now. Such is the difference between academia and industry. > > It's too bad. Goo was a really great effort and with a little more work it might have been able to pick up some momentum. > > I still use it from time to time for simple personal projects. > > One reason the license is messed up is because the your final code contains parts of the Goo runtime that are GPL'd. So you don't own a clear copyright on your own code. I requested that he re-release the code under the MIT license. > > Best, > > leb > > At 4:28 PM +0200 7/7/10, Nitralime wrote: >> Hi folks! >> >> Has the development of GOO been abandoned? >> >> Regards >> Nik >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Googoogaga mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/googoogaga > --------------070801040503030009080208 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font face="Consolas">Hi!<br> <br> Thank you very much for this info!<br> <br> Do you know (based on you own experience) how mature the current implementation of GOO is? <br> <br> Best regards<br> Nik<br> </font><br> <font face="Consolas">On 07/07/2010 11:34 PM, Lawrence E. Bakst wrote:</font> <blockquote cite="mid:p06240831c85aa15eaab1@%5B192.168.0.7%5D" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">It seems so. The creator Jonathan Bachrach has left MIT a few years ago and is now working in "industry". I tried several times to get him to change the Goo license and I got the feeling he is just very busy right now. Such is the difference between academia and industry. It's too bad. Goo was a really great effort and with a little more work it might have been able to pick up some momentum. I still use it from time to time for simple personal projects. One reason the license is messed up is because the your final code contains parts of the Goo runtime that are GPL'd. So you don't own a clear copyright on your own code. I requested that he re-release the code under the MIT license. Best, leb At 4:28 PM +0200 7/7/10, Nitralime wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi folks! Has the development of GOO been abandoned? Regards Nik _______________________________________________ Googoogaga mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/googoogaga">https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/googoogaga</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------070801040503030009080208-- --===============2012533227== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Googoogaga mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/googoogaga --===============2012533227==--