[squeak-dev] comments on SFC agreement

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Tue May 4 22:47:32 UTC 2010


Well since you asked. 

A. The purpose of the Project is to produce and distribute software that can be freely copied, modified and redistributed by the general public (“Free Software”).

is that replacing the 

MIT License

Copyright (c) The individual, corporate, and institutional contributors who have collectively contributed elements to this software ("The Squeak Community"), 1996-2010 All rights reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
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Or am I just confused by not assuming that:
"and be freely copied, modified and redistributed by the general public" 
is the same as the MIT license? 

On 2010-05-04, at 1:47 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:

> Nobody has made any comments on the current draft of the agreement we
> plan to sign to join the SFC:
> 
>> http://ftp.squeak.org/docs/squeak-sponsorship-agreement-apr19.pdf
> 
> I will take this as a sign that everyone is happy with this version and
> that I should vote to approve it in tomorrow's board meeting. This will
> bring to a close a process that has been dragging on since about 2004.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Jecel
> 
> 

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