[squeak-dev] Re: Request for the foundation
Matthew Fulmer
tapplek at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 16:14:08 UTC 2008
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 04:54:31PM +0100, Pavel Krivanek wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:26 PM, stephane ducasse
> <stephane.ducasse at free.fr> wrote:
> > The website says the following: http://www.squeak.org/SqueakLicense
> >
> > > 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 V1.1 under
> > > the Apple Public Source License.
> > >
> > > On October 12, 2006 Apple granted permission to relicense under
> > > Apache license 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.
> > >
> > So this means that 3.9, 3.10 and others are not covered! Will the
> > foundation do something about that?
>
> I suppose that covered code is author specific - till the signature
> date. And because the SqueakL was still the main project license, new
> posts are under this license :-(
> So it seems that we will have to collect new agreements...
> We need the list that Stef requested with signature dates.
I'll bring this up at the meeting tomorrow. Stef, you are
welcome to come:
http://installer.pbwiki.org/MeetingNotes004
This is a public meeting on the #squeak IRC channel
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Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/
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