Mission for Squeak Foundation
Stéphane Ducasse
stephane.ducasse at univ-savoie.fr
Tue Dec 20 07:58:22 UTC 2005
Hi
Context:
a small company state founded would like to evaluate squeak for
developing open-source software for education:
environments for kids to learn maths, history, reading..... They are
willing to invest quite some money in the process
and if this is successful put more.
Problem:
Now they are really big believers about open-source. Their mission is
to help schools in the computer development:
web hosting, management software....Now they are not specialist in
squeak nor in licenses/lawyer.
I told them that lot of projects are developed in Squeak (sophie,
Tweak, openCroquet, Squeakland, SmallLand....)
They asked around and they got several and different voices.
Request:
Now they have the following request which makes a lot of sense:
They would like to get the official analysis of the license so that
they can understand the risk. (they are not talking about
changes but they would like to understand in normal terms what are
the problems and risks for them).
They suggested me to contact some french free software organization
to ask them.
Now I would like to know if this is possible that we ask andrew and
the lawyer that ron contact for the cryptographic
packages to write down their analysis and that we publish it on the
squeak web site.
What do you think? I think that this would be a perfect use of the
SqueakFoundation to make the situation clearer.
Stef
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