To do it the formal way, will it not be better that such persons sign a paper where they declared to be the owner of clearly identified pieces of code and agree to release it under the XXX/YYY licence
Providing a model document will be the only needed things
The question is who should be the recipient of such documents. The Squeak Foundation seems to be out of sync (concern?) regarding the licence matter...
Hilaire
stéphane ducasse a écrit :
The really first step that could be reused in any future is to develop a small application that let the user identify himself, and declare that all the code he sent to the mailing-list and that have been harvested is under MIT/BSD/Squeak-L.
Stef
On 14 juin 06, at 17:44, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
While at the 14th International Smalltalk Conference 2006[1], I am proposing we set a meeting during all the week to establish a migration plan to get the next version of Squeak released under a licence compatible with the free software community (probably APSL2 in our case).
As a free software activist and developer, I always get political difficulty to promote Squeak because of its licence. For me it is already free but most of the free software community and my friend do not share this point of view. It is really a problem because most people get stuck to the licence problem and they can't discover all the great stuff coming with Squeak and Smalltalk.
Getting the next Squeak released under a free software licence, compatible with the free software community, will help us if we want our community to grow, and we all fell the potential for the growth is there. A bigger community will be a great benefice for all of us: more people writing great library frameworks, developers could get more support from the free software oriented corporations, a well known Squeak will open new business opportunity, educators will be more exposed to Squeak and they will produce more teaching materials. In fact we will just be able to take benefice of the great promotion machinery of the free software community. Anyway I am just repeating things you already know.
Back to the meeting idea. The only output of this meeting will be a migration plan, to establish wish bits need to be removed, rewritten, relicenced. It is more a meta-migration meeting than a migration meeting, but still it is a first step we need to work on. To establish a realistic migration plan, the helps of Squeak experts will be an absolute necessity. Great Squeakers as Marcus Denker, Stephane Ducasse, Adrian Leinhardt, Lukas Renggli, Mike Rueger (impara) will attend the International Smalltalk conference. We can take the opportunity of the physical presence of these experts to get great insights for a realistic migration plan.
I am proposing for 4 or 5 days meeting, taking place after the daily conferences. The meeting could last for two hours, 17:00-19:00.
As a matter of facts, which experts are ready to join such a meeting?
Hilaire
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