[Box-Admins] Re: [squeak-dev] license related changes on Mantis server

Ken Causey ken at kencausey.com
Wed May 21 17:10:42 UTC 2008


Actually, I should clarify: Adding the notice to the 'front page' is
easy, requiring no source code changes, so can be done immediately.  It
is the other changes that are more involved and that I would like some
time to complete.

Ken

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 11:03 -0500, Ken Causey wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 17:25 -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> > On 20-May-08, at 1:23 PM, Ken Causey wrote:
> > > Should I just write up my own notice or would you like to provide
> > > specific text?
> > 
> > Hmm, I guess we should discuss this at tomorrow's board meeting and  
> > let you know. Suggestions from the wider community are welcome of  
> > course.
> > 
> > I'll start the ball rolling with "Hey You! Read this NOW. Any code  
> > submitted to this Mantis system as a fix or suggested fix for the  
> > Squeak core system must be offered under the terms of the MIT license  
> > <-link. Code entered here in the Description, Additional Information  
> > or Notes, or uploaded as a file, is assumed to be so licensed"
> 
> If the Board would like me to, I could attend.  But I think it is
> probably sufficient if the everyone on the Board has an opportunity to
> give any opinions on the issue, as already discussed via email, and then
> continue to delegate to you.  I suspect that between the two of us (you
> can bring the 'crazy' and I will bring the 'boring') we can hash it out.
> 
> I'm not sure of the desired schedule on this but I would like to request
> the opportunity to upgrade both PHP and Mantis on the server before
> doing this.  One of the problems with doing something like this is
> having to maintain it as we upgrade Mantis.  For that reason I would
> prefer to do the upgrade prior to the changes.  And for that matter I
> have at least a change or two I will already have to port.
> 
> Given that I want to also go ahead and upgrade PHP as well I would like
> some time to do some testing and would request about a two week schedule
> on completing the upgrades and adding the first version of license
> notification support.
> 
> Ken
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