Hi.<br><br>Could I get my understanding of the licensing situation verified please:<br><br>Squeak 1.1 was originally released under the Squeak license. It has since been relicensed under the Apache 2.0 license.<br>All changes made since Squeak
1.1 were originally under the Squeak license.<br>All changes made by people who have signed[1] the license agreement [2] are now under the MIT license.<br>All changes made by people who have /not/ signed[3] the license agreement remain under the Squeak license.
<br><br>So, does this mean that all of Squeak, except the contributions by people who haven't signed the license agreement, is now (as of Squeak 3.10) released under the Apache 2.0 license?<br><br>Are class definitions and documentation changes also taken into account when working out who the contributers are?
<br><br>My understanding of Squeak history is that Squeak was born in Apple, then was released and became an open source project, then the authors were hired by Disney and made more modifications, then left Disney to make Squeak what it is today.
<br><br>Were the changes made at Disney released under the Squeak license? <br>Does Disney own the changes made, or do the individual contributers working for Disney own the changes?<br>Are the changes made at Disney now released under MIT?
<br><br>How do you work out what changes were made at Disney (in the case that they are problematic)?<br><br>Could I take a calculated risk and state that my work is hereby released under the Apache 2.0 license, and that anybody who hasn't signed the distribution agreement doesn't really care anyway? What is the worst case scenario here? Would a prior contributer sue me because I've stolen their Squeak-L based work and released it under the Apache
2.0 license?<br><br clear="all">[1] <a href="http://www.netjam.org/squeak/contributors/signatories">http://www.netjam.org/squeak/contributors/signatories</a><br>[2] <a href="http://netjam.org/squeak/SqueakDistributionAgreement.pdf">
http://netjam.org/squeak/SqueakDistributionAgreement.pdf</a><br>[3] <a href="http://www.netjam.org/squeak/contributors/missingSignatories">http://www.netjam.org/squeak/contributors/missingSignatories</a><br><br>I'm asking this because I'm about to embark on some significant changes to the classes in Kernel and Collections for my SecureSqueak project. I want the end result of this work to be released under the Apache
2.0 license, if possible. These changes are scoped to Kernel, Collections and a handful of other classes.<br><br>Gulik.<br><br>-- <br><a href="http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/mikevdg">http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/mikevdg
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