Hi Craig -

Thanks for the update, it's really useful to see what the board is up 
to. The "mapping of contributor initials to authors" is something I 
might be able to help getting started with. As you may or may not 
remember I compiled a history of the change sets that went into all the 
Squeak versions that were managed via update streams up until 3.6. 
Attached is an OpenOffice sheet with the approx. 200 initials that 
occurred between 2.0 and 3.6 (plus how many methods they touched in each 
Squeak version). It is not an accurate list (since it doesn't include 
anything before 2.0 or after 3.6) but I think it's a good starting point 
that should help making up a list of contributors.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Craig Latta wrote:
> Hi all--
> 
>      I have obtained permission from the rest of the Squeak Foundation
> board to speak for the board. I'll start with info about the current
> board vacancy and action items from the most recent meeting (we meet for
> an hour via instant-messaging on first and third Wednesdays). In
> general, if you have any questions related to the board, please feel
> free to ask; I'll try to answer.
> 
>      One board member (Stephane Ducasse) has resigned. (The other
> members are Marcus Denker, Cees de Groot, Bert Freudenberg, Craig Latta,
> Yoshiki Ohshima, and Tim Rowledge.) For the moment, we have decided not
> to fill the vacancy, because of the overhead of holding elections. Our
> sense is that it's better to just wait for the next regular election to
> have a full board, unless a majority of the board should happen to
> resign (in which case it probably makes sense to move the elections up).
> The elections are currently annual, and the next one is scheduled for
> February 2007. Thanks to Daniel Vainsencher of the elections team and
> other members of the community for their opinions.
> 
>      As you may remember, Apple has relicensed the original Squeak
> release under APSL2 (see [1]). We'd like to enable releases composed of
> material from that original release in combination with subsequent
> community contributions. We sought the advice of Dan Ravicher, a lawyer
> with the Software Freedom Law Center[2]. He suggests that we begin by
> compiling a definitive mapping of all the contributor initials in the
> system to their authors, so we can contact each author for explicit terms.
> 
>      Bert has agreed to create this list for the Squeakland system. We'd
> like a volunteer to do the same for the 3.9 release. I volunteered to
> write the terms request letter (which we will submit to Ravicher and the
> community at large for approval). We'd eventually like to get the
> entirety of Squeak available under an MIT-style license, since that
> seems to be the best combination of simplicity and familiarity.
> 
> 
>      thanks,
> 
> -C
> 
> [1] http://tinyurl.com/lh5jp (lists.squeakfoundation.org)
> [2] http://www.softwarefreedom.org
> 

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