Re: OSX port

Hi Gilad,

On Aug 10, 3:31=A0am, Gilad Bracha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Awesome. Do you have Aliens working on Strongtalk yet? It's a very small
> step from Aliens to ObjectiveCAliens - at which point a GUI is in reach, =
I
> think.
>

I haven't started on Aliens yet, but it is next on my list. I have
started looking at the documentation from the NS Aliens work.

My instinct is to re-use as much of the NS Aliens code as possible.
One concern I have with that approach is that my understanding is that
the NewSpeak code, including presumably the Aliens code, is licensed
by Cadence under an Apache license, whereas contributions to
Strongtalk are licensed under a BSD license. One approach to this is
to keep the Aliens code separate from the Strongtalk base and load it
into the image as a separate step, however that is not very
convenient, particularly if we were to depend upon an ObjectCAlien to
enable an OSX UI.

Do you think Cadence would be prepared to dual license the Aliens code
under BSD and Apache?

The alternative is to re-implement Aliens from scratch as per the
specs from the documentation. It's more work, but it would be license
clean.

-talksmall
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