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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