The original Squeak release is available under APSL2.

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at squeakland.org
Wed May 24 19:05:51 UTC 2006


> 	Thanks to long-running efforts by folks at Viewpoints Research 
> Institute, Apple Computer and elsewhere, Apple has given Viewpoints 
> permission to make a release of the original public Squeak system using 
> the Apple Public Source License[1].
> 
> 	Squeak 1.1, with an APSL2 license, is available here:
> 
> 	http://squeakland.org/installers/Squeak1.1-APSL.zip
> 
> 	The Squeak Foundation board would like to thank the above groups for 
> making this happen, and everyone else for being so patient!

  Yay!

> 	And now we live in interesting times. This only applies to the original 
> release of Squeak (version 1.1 of 23 September 1996); we now have a 
> choice between APSL2 and the original Squeak License[2] for that 
> release. We need to decide what to do about subsequent code, and code 
> written by third parties. We might choose to rewrite some things so as 
> to create a better licensing situation. We probably want to have a 
> policy whereby contributors agree to grant a particular license to their 
> work explicitly before we can accept it.
> 
> 	How shall we proceed with future releases of Squeak? Let's discuss it.

  Yes, let's.  But, I'm too humble to start one by myself^^;

-- Yoshiki



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