[Webteam] No mention of Squeak relicensing to less-restrictive
Apache license on Squeak.org
karl
karl.ramberg at chello.se
Thu Nov 16 10:26:22 UTC 2006
goran at krampe.se skrev:
> 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.
You got me a little confused for a minute :-)
The license on Squeak.org _is_ the Squeak License. I hunted down a old
version:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000412023805/squeak.org/license.html
Karl
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