A post about SqueakL

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Sep 13 09:41:49 UTC 2005


I publish a simple tools that does that for the last version of the  
methods: on SqueakSource: AuthorChecker
Can be easily extended to check the first version of the method with  
an image having to complete history.

Stef

On 13 sept. 05, at 00:43, goran at krampe.se wrote:

> 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
>
>




More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list