A post about SqueakL

goran at krampe.se goran at krampe.se
Mon Sep 12 22:43:16 UTC 2005


Hi!

Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/12/05, Giovanni Corriga <giovanni at corriga.net> wrote:
> 
> > According to a message sent by Alan Kay to this list
> > ( http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2003-August/065270.html )
> > there is no Disney owned code in the versions distributed by
> > SqueakCentral. If this is true, things would be really simpler: Apple is
> > more open source friendly than Disney.
> 
> I'm sure a number of long term participants in this mailing list are
> groaning in horror at the prospect of resurrecting the thread (which I
> just read for the first time) where this comment first appeared.
> 
> The above referenced post by Alan is, unfortuantely, another hazy
> chapter in this fog-enshrouded tale.  If I was to guess what Alan
> meant (admittedly, a waste of time) I'd say that he meant that Disney
> *content* (e.g., Mickey Mouse) was removed from Squeak, but not
> necessarily the code.
> 
> Does anyone know who owns which parts of Squeak?  More importantly, is
> that written down anywhere?

It can be traced/recreated through the method stamps with developer
initials and timestamps. I recall Andreas doing such a little analysis I
think. Anyway, it is doable.

And we could easily make a rough map I guess.

> --Tom

regards, Göran



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