License rewrite (was Re: Ideas of gift :))

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Dec 6 16:22:10 UTC 2007


On Dec 6, 2007, at 17:07 , Hilaire Fernandes wrote:

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> goran at krampe.se a écrit :
>> Hi!
>>
>> "Ralph Johnson" <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>> If you want to see Squeak relicensed then perhaps you should  
>>> volunteer
>>> to work on rewriting the methods from authors who have not signed an
>>> agreement.  First, of course, you should sign an agreement.
>>
>> I mentioned awhile back that I could take on a little bit of this and
>> here is a first small contribution - a rewrite of methods tagged as
>> Jerry Achibald (not with us anymore):
>>
>> 	http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6800
>>
>> Might need a tiny bit of test/reviewing but I hope it is clean.
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> According to the FSF feedback -- which a believe to be strick  
> regarding
> license issue -- short contribution (less than 10 lines) can just be
> ignored.

The board is currently in contact with the Software Freedom Law  
Center for this and other issues around the relicensing.

- Bert -




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