[Webteam] Re: Groklaw article on Squeak

Michael van der Gulik squeakml at gulik.co.nz
Wed Nov 22 19:08:56 UTC 2006


It would be good to update www.squeak.org with this latest license 
information. I'll do it on wwwtest.squeak.org if I find time sometime soon.

Michael.

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2006, at 23:35 , Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 
>> 2006/11/18, Nevin Pratt <nevin at bountifulbaby.com>:
>>
>>> I think this is of general interest to all Squeakers:
>>>
>>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061118091048997
>>
>>
>> Just out of curiosity. They say it's FOSS. So what is the license of
>> the OLPC image and VM? Apache as the article suggests?
> 
> 
> VM is MIT (see current SVN sources). Image is Apache.
> 
> Because we only ship the binary image and no sources in the OLPC OS  
> builds, we could already release this under Apache license. However,  
> Kim Rose is sending out contributor forms at the moment, all  
> contributions since Squeak 1.1 are going to be MIT which is  compatible 
> with Apache. Once this is finished, source code will be  fully under 
> Apache, too, and we expect this to be finished before the  first real 
> OLPC laptop ships.
> 
> - Bert -
> 
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