Contribution licensing

karl karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Mon Mar 19 12:44:18 UTC 2007


karl skrev:
> Martin v. Löwis skrev:
>> Bert Freudenberg schrieb:
>>> MIT was chosen because it is compatible to basically everything. 
>>> Squeak 1.1 was relicensed by Apple under the Apache License 2.0 just 
>>> last year. With this Apache base and all the MIT contributions we 
>>> have a completely free system. And if there was a replacement for 
>>> the Squeak kernel down the road (Spoon, Pepsi, whatever) the MIT 
>>> parts can be moved over with ease. Also, the major new systems built 
>>> on Squeak (like Croquet, Tweak, Seaside, etc.) are MIT licensed.
>>
>> As a contributor, I don't mind that choice. Still, the MIT license
>> requires that "The above copyright notice and this permission notice
>> shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
>> Software.", so I'm curious how this requirement will be executed.
>>
>> Will the licenses all be collected in a class comment of some class?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>>
>>
> Should we not have a class License and method licenseMIT ?
> I think we have been sloppy with distributing the license with Squeak 
> in the past. I can't recall any download wich include the Squeak 
> License or any other for that sake. 
We could even add a comment tag for the compiler so it will only compile 
the methods which refer to the MIT license. I'm not sure how to do that....

Karl



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