License rewrite (was Re: Ideas of gift :))

Jason Johnson jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 19:58:59 UTC 2007


Is there no other option for people who passed on before the current
world of copywriter longer then the constitution then rewriting their
code?  The chance of them suing for copy write violation has to be
low.  I assume the rights to the code goes to their survivors.  Has
any attempt been made to ask the heirs what they want done with the
code?  I would expect most of them would want the code to be
immortalized in Squeak rather then tossed and forgotten.

On Dec 6, 2007 1:35 PM,  <goran at krampe.se> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> "Ralph Johnson" <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I mentioned awhile back that I could take on a little bit of this and
> here is a first small contribution - a rewrite of methods tagged as
> Jerry Achibald (not with us anymore):
>
>         http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6800
>
> Might need a tiny bit of test/reviewing but I hope it is clean.
>
> regards, Göran
>
>



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