25 May 08:23
Re: The original Squeak release is available under APSL2.
From: Andreas Raab <andreas.raab <at> gmx.de>
Subject: Re: The original Squeak release is available under APSL2.
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general
Date: 2006-05-25 06:23:23 GMT
Subject: Re: The original Squeak release is available under APSL2.
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general
Date: 2006-05-25 06:23:23 GMT
> > Say, Craig, how much code is there in Spoon that is not covered by > > this new license and not copyright Craig Latta? > > The only thing I can think of offhand is the support for weak > references, done by Andreas at Di... Di... no, I'm not going to be the > first one to mention the next sleeping dog in public. ;) Actually, no. There is quite a bit of work in Squeak that I have done that is clearly not owned by the mouse and where I have proof for it. Weak references is one of them, see for example: http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/dev/Finalization/2.0/ObjectMemory-Finalization.st This was released in May 98 (I can probably still find some email conversation that goes back into 97) and I started working at Disney in December '98 (finalization first appeared in 2.3 I think which was released late 98, too). And although I did some consulting work in mid to late '98 for Alan's group that code was long released by then. I did it on my own, in my spare time and I own the copyright to these modifications. (besides that particular code is stupid and should be replaced anyway; I now know much better and easier and more flexible ways to deal with finalization) Cheers, - Andreas
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