2006-12-06 SqF board notes
Daniel Vainsencher
danielv at technion.ac.il
Thu Dec 7 07:11:01 UTC 2006
Repositories are probably a better mechanism - licensing problems are
easy to prevent at development time, hard to untangle anytime later
(such as SM publication).
We would also need something like this on Mantis, since people post
fixes there.
Daniel
Andreas Raab wrote:
> Hi Craig -
>
> Thanks for the update. It's great to get to see a little of what the
> board is talking about. One note:
>
> Craig Latta wrote:
>> 3. How shall we make future contributors aware their submissions must
>> be made available under the terms of the MIT license?
>>
>> We decided that the contribution mechanism shall present the
>> contributor with a notice that contributions must be made available
>> under the terms of the MIT license, and that the contributor must
>> acknowledge the notice. For example, SqueakMap could present a dialog
>> box with this information that the contributor may either accept or
>> cancel.
>
> One possibility is to make the cut at the (Monticello) repository
> level. For example, the repository at
>
> http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu:8888/PublicContribs.html
>
> says explicitly that "Code placed here must be made availalbe under
> the Croquet license, and will be considered for inclusion in the main
> distribution."
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
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