On Jun 28, 2006, at 4:26 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:

>>> But generally I think the time is right for us to "burn the disk
>>> packs!".
>>
>> +1
>
> The main problem is who would do that? Since we are not even able  
> to harvest fixes.
> Now what we can do is to perform an audit of the assets we have and  
> their status:
>
> - NewCompiler (nearly there and could be APSL/MIT/Squeak-L)
> - Tweak ?
> - OmniBrowser
> - MC
> - YAXO
>
> I have the impression that we cannot restart from scratch without a  
> clear analysis of the current
> status.

For what it's worth, I can verify that I do own copyright to all the  
code I've contributed to Squeak. I've refused to sign the  
Intellectual Property Agreement proposed by just about every employer  
I've had, and instead negotiated agreements that left me in control  
of my contributions to open source projects. (Smallthought is the  
only company I've worked for where this wasn't an issue.)

That means that most of OB and a good chunk of MC are "clean" from a  
licensing point of view. It wouldn't be too much work to track down  
the other contributors and either get similar verification or excise  
their contribution.

Colin