[Webteam] No mention of Squeak relicensing to less-restrictive Apache license on Squeak.org

Karl karl.ramberg at chello.se
Thu Nov 16 09:45:49 UTC 2006


Alex Perez wrote:
> Folks,
>
> According to 
> http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf/2e76a5a80bc36cbf85256cd700545fa5/fd078b45d9ffd8e7852571f9005be555?OpenDocument 
> , Alan Kay announced a month and a half ago that Steve Jobs has agreed 
> to relicense Squeak under the Apache License, but the license cited at
>
> htttp://www.squeak.org/SqueakLicense/
>
> is still the old APSL 2.0. Shouldn't this be updated to reflect the 
> change, as well as the license file that comes along with the release? 
> (which launches me into a question of why the 3.9 final image still 
> isn't a default part of the main archives under the download section, 
> but I digress, and am sure you folks are already aware of this)
I think the process is in a phase of getting all other contributors than 
Apple to sign over to the new license. This may take some time. Maybe we 
should mention that there is some work underway on this issue.
Karl


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