Squeak license situation
Karl
karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Thu Nov 22 11:23:55 UTC 2007
Thushar G R wrote:
> hi all,
>
> Wat will be the role of young squeakers like me.......i am relatively
> new to this business and i need help regarding understanding my role
> in here? wat happens if MIT licence is given to squeak?does any of my
> freedom regarding using sueak code will be affected...?I have
> published something in squeak map ...will that be affected too...
>
> pls reply with details...coz i am new to this and totally ignorant bot
> the leagal as well as licensing aspects...
>
> TIA,
>
> thushar(grt)
Your code on SqueakMap is under license of your own decision. If you
want your code included in the official Squeak releases it must be under
the MIT license.
Karl
>
>
> On 11/22/07, * Karl* <karl.ramberg at comhem.se
> <mailto:karl.ramberg at comhem.se>> wrote:
>
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > On Nov 21, 2007, at 3:55 , tim Rowledge wrote:
> >
> >> Oh, and I *think* that strictly speaking we're not in the
> business of
> >> relicensing the system as MIT; Apple relicensed the 1.1 release
> under
> >> the Apache 2.0 license and we are trying to get everything added
> >> subsequently to be under MIT. So far as I can work out that
> means the
> >> *system* as a whole will be legally Apache 2.0 but I am not a
> lawyer
> >> and I don't even play one on TV.
> >
> > Indeed - the board is trying to get clarification on this from
> VPRI's
> > lawyers.
> >
> > What we can say for sure is the history of events to date:
> >
> > ==========
> > On 23 September 1996, Apple Computer Inc. released Squeak V1.1 under
> > the "Squeak License" (SqL).
> >
> > On May 8, 2006 Apple agreed to relicense original Squeak Code under
> > the "Apple Public Source License 2.0" (APSL 2.0).
> >
> > On October 12, 2006 Apple granted permission to relicense under
> Apache
> > 2.0.
> >
> > In 2006, VPRI began to collect "Distribution Agreements" for all
> > contributors to Squeak since V1.1 up to V3.8, asking them to
> relicense
> > their contributions, which were originally licensed under SqL,
> to the
> > MIT license. This was a great effort on behalf of many and VPRI has
> > 100s of signed documents agreeing to this.
> > ==========
> >
> > This, I think, should be mentioned on
> > http://www.squeak.org/SqueakLicense/ which is somewhat fuzzy.
> I made some changes to the license page. It's still fuzzy but the
> whole
> license situation is a little fuzzy :-)
>
> Karl
>
>
>
>
> --
> thuchu
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