Proposal for a Squeak migration meeting

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Jul 4 14:32:22 UTC 2006


Colin Putney <cputney at wiresong.ca> writes:
> On Jun 30, 2006, at 5:47 AM, Lex Spoon wrote:
> > There is a lot of existing Squeak content.  There are 200 packages in
> > the 3.7 stable package universe.  It takes hours just to *read* this
> > list.  Imagine how long it would take to reproduce it all.
> 
> Whoa. So far this is the first suggestion I've seen that we should
> worry about the licensing of anything other than the core image. 

We agree, I think.  The point is that if we try and restart the core
image from scratch, then we would have a long way to go before getting
back to Squeak's current functionality.  It is more realistic to
contact the existing contributors and verify that they agree to a
relicense.


Lex





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