Could we just start releasing it under the Croquet license? The Croquet 
group has gone ahead and released everything through Squeak3.6 under 
their license by fiat. They have a great license. If we can get all the 
main package owners to release their packages under the Croquet license 
(Monticello, SqueakMap, etc), then the only parts of squeak that are not 
under the Croquet license are anything done since 3.6. Should some 
license induced crisis emerge, at least that isolates any code that 
would have to be rewritten or relicensed to the code that made it into 
the image between 3.6 and 4.0.

Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> Hello Fellow Squeakers,
> 
> I am not attempting to revive any of the old license debates, but wanted 
> to put forth a simple thought.
> 
> When we produce Squeak vX in the near future which is somewhat 
> partitioned and packaged into Minimal, Basic and Mongo (or whatever :), 
> that we also release it under a new Squeak Community License and 
> completely drop (and drop all references to) the old Apple Squeak License.
> 
> The Croquet Project has a foundation, has attorneys. Croquet has its own 
> license (MIT based) which makes no mention of Apple or the old license. 
> Now deep inside the Squeak image they use, if one looks, one can find 
> mention of the Apple Squeak license.
> 
> It seems to me that in this next release that we are far enough away 
> from what Apple released, to free Squeak from the old license. Much has 
> been redone and refactored or is completely new and different. Have we 
> not bootstrapped ourselves into something different than that which was 
> received?
> 
> The old Squeak was completely monolithic.
> 
> The new Squeak is modular. The basic part of Squeak is clean, refactored 
> and fresh (comparitively to the Squeak received from Apple). Since 
> Morphic is being cleaned an packaged, any license or ownership issues 
> associated with it can be or are mitigated. And it too is or will be 
> different than that which was received.
> 
> There is reasonable time and code distance from the corporate hands 
> which have been on Squeak. I personally think the corporate hands don't 
> care about Squeak. This change would (could) effectively dis-involve 
> them completely. This could make it all a non-issue for the corporations.
> 
> Squeak vX, a clean image, fresh sources file, near empty changes file, a 
> new license.  Yes...?
> 
> With such a change we could finally break into Debian, Ubuntu and 
> whatever distribution desired.
> 
> Thoughts.
> 
> Jimmie Houchin
> 
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