License rewrite

Hilaire Fernandes hilaire at ofset.org
Sun Dec 9 15:12:36 UTC 2007


Craig Latta a écrit :
> 
> Hi Hilaire--
> 
>  > What about the free software foundation, may be they can provide input
>  > in a quicker way.
> 
>      Well, I'll bring up that suggestion again at the next Squeak 
> leadership meeting (on 2007-12-19), but we weren't keen on it the last 
> time. The main nice thing about joining the Software Freedom Conservancy 
> is it will give us ongoing access to legal counsel and a tax-exempt 
> donation mechanism, without having to administer it ourselves (and with 
> the ability to start our own completely independent organization later 
> if we desire). Also, the community has so far reached consensus around 
> an MIT-style license, and not the GPL or LGPL, so I suspect the FSF 
> wouldn't be quite so interested in us.

Asking advices to FSF does not imply to move to GPL or LGPL.
FSF has a long time experience regarding free software license.
If FSF states that below 20 lines of source code contribution we should 
not worry about the copyright owner (thanks Paolo) we should just follow 
this advice (and it is an important one).

I have grouped information on the wiki, http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6016

My next target will be to identify these < 20 lines of code contribution 
and remove them from the to do list.

Hilaire




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