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

[goran at krampe.se]

Hi!

Karl <karl.ramberg at chello.se> wrote:
> 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.

And yes, just because Apple has relicensed original Squeak that they
released in 1996 (or whatever it was) does not mean that we can change
the license of the currently distributed Squeak. In fact, I don't know
why Squeak.org has changed to show APSL even? The same problem applies.

regards, Göran