Ideas of gift :)
Hilaire Fernandes
hilaire at ofset.org
Thu Dec 6 12:14:18 UTC 2007
Please realise I am asking for the *updated* information about what left
to be done. There are no clear informations, or only outdate information
Compare to the KDE effort http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_Relicensing
And yes I signed an agreement a long time ago
Hilaire
Ralph Johnson a écrit :
> On Dec 6, 2007 3:05 AM, Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire at ofset.org> wrote:
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>> A real GREAT gift for Christmas will be to see Squeak relicensed!
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>> Will it be possible at least to get info about the actual situation?
>
> We have been told about the actual situation. The actual situation is
> that to get a new license, the authors have to give permission.
> Squeak has code from many authors. It is taking a lot of time to get
> the signatures, and they have pretty much quit coming in. So, the
> plan now is to rewrite all the code from authors who have not signed
> the contributor agreement. There is a list of this code somewhere.
>
> If you want to see Squeak relicensed then perhaps you should volunteer
> to work on rewriting the methods from authors who have not signed an
> agreement. First, of course, you should sign an agreement.
>
> -Ralph Johnson
>
>
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