Proposal for a Squeak migration meeting

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Jun 17 15:38:17 UTC 2006


> To do it the formal way, will it not be better that such persons  
> sign a
> paper where they declared to be the owner of clearly identified pieces
> of code and agree to release it under the XXX/YYY licence
>
> Providing a model document will be the only needed things
>
> The question is who should be the recipient of such documents. The
> Squeak Foundation seems to be out of sync (concern?) regarding the
> licence matter...

I do not know. In fact I'm not working on the license aspects, may be  
other members
have more information than me.

I asked the foundation if we could get such a template but so far, I  
got no reaction.

Stef

>
> Hilaire
>
> stéphane ducasse a écrit :
>> The really first step that could be reused in any future is to   
>> develop
>> a small application that let
>> the user identify himself, and declare that all the code he sent  
>> to  the
>> mailing-list and that have been harvested is under
>> MIT/BSD/Squeak-L.
>>
>> Stef
>>
>> On 14 juin 06, at 17:44, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
>>
>>> While at the 14th International Smalltalk Conference 2006[1], I am
>>> proposing we set a meeting during all the week to establish a
>>> migration plan to get the next version of Squeak released under a
>>> licence compatible with the free software community (probably APSL2
>>> in our case).
>>>
>>> As a free software activist and developer, I always get political
>>> difficulty to promote Squeak because of its licence. For me it is
>>> already free but most of the free software community and my friend
>>> do not share this point of view. It is really a problem because    
>>> most
>>> people get stuck to the licence problem and they can't   discover  
>>> all
>>> the great stuff coming with Squeak and Smalltalk.
>>>
>>> Getting the next Squeak released under a free software licence,
>>> compatible with the free software community, will help us if we    
>>> want
>>> our community to grow, and we all fell the potential for the    
>>> growth
>>> is there. A bigger community will be a great benefice for   all  
>>> of us:
>>> more people writing great library frameworks,  developers  could get
>>> more support from the free software oriented   corporations, a well
>>> known Squeak will open new business   opportunity, educators will be
>>> more exposed to Squeak and they  will  produce more teaching
>>> materials. In fact we will just be able  to  take benefice of the
>>> great promotion machinery of the free  software  community. Anyway I
>>> am just repeating things you already  know.
>>>
>>> Back to the meeting idea. The only output of this meeting will be a
>>> migration plan, to establish wish bits need to be removed,
>>> rewritten, relicenced. It is more a meta-migration meeting than a
>>> migration meeting, but still it is a first step we need to work  on.
>>> To establish a realistic migration plan, the helps of Squeak    
>>> experts
>>> will be an absolute necessity.
>>> Great Squeakers as Marcus Denker, Stephane Ducasse, Adrian
>>> Leinhardt, Lukas  Renggli, Mike Rueger (impara) will attend the
>>> International Smalltalk conference. We can take the opportunity of
>>> the physical presence of these experts to get great insights for a
>>> realistic migration plan.
>>>
>>> I am proposing for 4 or 5 days meeting, taking place after the    
>>> daily
>>> conferences. The meeting could last for two hours, 17:00-19:00.
>>>
>>> As a matter of facts, which experts are ready to join such a  
>>> meeting?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hilaire
>>> -- 
>>> ADD R0,R1,R2,LSL #2
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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