[Webteam] 2nd Draft of About section

[Larry Trutter]

>From: karl <karl.ramberg at comhem.se>
>To: Larry Trutter <stargazerzero at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Webteam] 2nd Draft of About section
>Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:35:34 +0100
>
>Larry Trutter skrev:
>>>From: Brad Fuller <brad at bradfuller.com>
>>>To: Larry Trutter <stargazerzero at hotmail.com>
>>>CC: webteam at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>>Subject: Re: [Webteam] 2nd Draft of About section
>>>Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:38:56 -0800
>>>
>>>Looks good. A few comments:
>>>
>>>The only problem with this is that "image" has not been defined yet.
>>>
>>>"Squeak runs bit-identical images across it"
>>
>>I linked the word "images" to a definition of image in the Squeak swiki: 
>>http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2213
>>
>>>
>>>Change:
>>>Smalltalk is invented to
>>>to
>>>Smalltalk was invented to implement the Dynabook 
>>><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook> and was conceived
>>>
>>>However, I don't think this is necessarily true. I realize Alan had 
>>>dynabook in mind, but I don't know if Smalltalk was invented for the 
>>>dynabook.
>>
>>It was an unsuccessful attempt to transition to the Dynabook paragraph. So 
>>I got rid of "Smalltalk was.." part of the sentence.
>>
>>>Should we add licensing info here? I'm wondering if we should leave it 
>>>out. It is changing and if people need to read the license, they can do 
>>>so by taking the link on the left side of the site. That way we don't 
>>>have to update the license info in several places.
>>>
>>>What do others think?
>>
>>I agree that it should be taken out.  Do others agree?
>I think we should mention something somewhere about the work to change the 
>license. But I'm not sure about where.
>karl

Yes. Maybe on the license page?

My impression is that VPRI is taking the lead on this and Squeak Foundation 
is helping to contact contributors for license change. I don't know much 
beyond that.

-Larry Trutter

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