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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>> ADD R0,R1,R2,LSL #2
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