Proposal for a Squeak migration meeting

Hilaire Fernandes hilaire at ext.cri74.org
Mon Jun 26 15:37:52 UTC 2006


tim Rowledge a écrit :
> For a long time now - I have no idea of the actual number of days/ 
> months/years - the policy has been stated on SM that SqL is the only  
> acceptable license for inclusion in base Squeak. Therefore I would  
> claim that *every* bit of code submitted for a bugfix or base image  
> extension is SqL since the author knows that it must be in order to  be 
> accepted.
> 
> As for Disney era code - well surely nobody thinks that Alan didn't  
> thoroughly apprise Disney of the license conditions when negotiating  
> the deal to work there? Likewise HP.
> 
> So I think it reasonable to claim that stuff in the base image is  
> fairly safe. Further, if Apple have decided that some license is good  
> enough for their purpose to replace the SqL then it seems that they  
> consider this new license 'no less protective'.

It is understandable and the problem is not there. The problem is about 
relicensing SqL code owned by Disney.

Hilaire



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