Licensing of HC HTTPClient

[Ken Causey]

I thought of another issue regarding our choice of a replacement
HTTPClient: licensing.

I'm not sure of the exact situation but I'm assuming for now that the
package needs to be avilable under the SqueakL for inclusion into the
basic image.  It looks like we are probably OK for Steve Waring's client
which is supposedly dual licensed MIT and SqueakL.  However the
SqueakMap entry for HC HTTPClient simply says 'Other license'.  I have
not been able to find any further information regarding the licensing of
this package.  As you may have seen seperately I've sent email to the
list trying to reach Colin so we can communicate with him regarding this
package.  I have no idea if we will reach him.

Ken



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[tim Rowledge]

Dave Lewis did a fair old bit of work to write the DirectoryPlugin  
(http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2274) and it might make a good  
start for improving the steaming pile of nastiness currently used for  
file accessing. Have any of you looked at it? Any opinions on it - or  
indeed on any of the issues?

tim
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[David T. Lewis]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 04:52:32PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> Dave Lewis did a fair old bit of work to write the DirectoryPlugin  
> (http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2274) and it might make a good  
> start for improving the steaming pile of nastiness currently used for  
> file accessing. Have any of you looked at it? Any opinions on it - or  
> indeed on any of the issues?

DirectoryPlugin is a performance optimization based on the existing
Squeak model of directories and files. It will make the current steaming
pile go faster, but it will not smell any better.

If I were to contribute anything to this discussion, I'd prefer that
you look at IOHandle (http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/996). It will
not help at all with performance, but it does attempt to represent a
conceptual difference between low level IO channels and the higher
level Squeak constructs such as streams, files, and sockets.

Craig's Flow framework also addresses this, but it's a bigger step
to take for the installed base.

Dave

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[Ken Causey]

I've been communicating with Colin Curtin and he has released a new
version of HC HTTPClient on SqueakMap and has agreed to license it under
SqueakL.  So this issue is now moot.

Ken

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 13:19 -0500, Ken Causey wrote:

> I thought of another issue regarding our choice of a replacement
> HTTPClient: licensing.
>
> I'm not sure of the exact situation but I'm assuming for now that the
> package needs to be avilable under the SqueakL for inclusion into the
> basic image.  It looks like we are probably OK for Steve Waring's client
> which is supposedly dual licensed MIT and SqueakL.  However the
> SqueakMap entry for HC HTTPClient simply says 'Other license'.  I have
> not been able to find any further information regarding the licensing of
> this package.  As you may have seen seperately I've sent email to the
> list trying to reach Colin so we can communicate with him regarding this
> package.  I have no idea if we will reach him.
>
> Ken
>
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