Andreas Raab told me after my quest to change the license "at least"  
for the current vms:

- The VM is a binary and not source, thus the OSS discussion would  
not apply.
- None of the VM makers/maintainers is interested in this task at the  
moment, as the task is not important enough for them _now_
- Changing the license of the VM might actually be _harder_ than  
relicensing the image code as all the plugins had to be looked through
- If you wanted to help, you needed to classify all the changes to  
the VM from 1.1: Who did what and when... then you had to ask the  
authors for their agreement with a relicensing.

In the long future it looks like Ian Piumarta's new Pepsi and Coke  
Meta-VM might lift off:

"2. Alan Kay, Kim Rose, and the eToys team spent the week in  
Cambridge at
the OLPC offices. They continue to make rapid progress towards the
integration of eToys into the laptop software environment (they also
provided useful feedback) and have eToys running on the laptop. Ian
Piumarta gave the OLPC team an update on his “dynamically reconfigurable
virtual machine”, which may be—in the longer term—the basis of   
programming
environment for the Laptop, in that it is simple, fast, extremely  
flexible
and quite eloquent."
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf/latest/news?opendocument=
from yesterday.

Cheers,

Markus

  Squeak1.1 die Modifikationen zur VM zu klassifizieren: Was, wann,  
wer. Dann kannst Du die originalen Autoren fragen ob sie mit einer  
Relizensierung einverstanden sind.

On Sep 17, 2006, at 7:13 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:

> In July, Squeak 1.1 was released with the APSL2 license. Is that  
> right?
> There was further discussion on how other/future versions of Squeak
> could be open - or at least discussion of what needed to be done. Was
> there any conclusion? Does anyone know the status? Is there a team
> looking at this? Squeak Foundation perhaps?
>
> My recollection is that the discussion stopped w/o conclusion.
>
> brad
>
> -- 
> brad fuller
> sonaural: www.sonaural.com
> personal: www.bradfuller.com
> www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2184
>
>
>