Contribution licensing

karl karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Mon Mar 19 12:38:01 UTC 2007


Martin v. Löwis skrev:
> Bert Freudenberg schrieb:
>> MIT was chosen because it is compatible to basically everything. 
>> Squeak 1.1 was relicensed by Apple under the Apache License 2.0 just 
>> last year. With this Apache base and all the MIT contributions we 
>> have a completely free system. And if there was a replacement for the 
>> Squeak kernel down the road (Spoon, Pepsi, whatever) the MIT parts 
>> can be moved over with ease. Also, the major new systems built on 
>> Squeak (like Croquet, Tweak, Seaside, etc.) are MIT licensed.
>
> As a contributor, I don't mind that choice. Still, the MIT license
> requires that "The above copyright notice and this permission notice
> shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
> Software.", so I'm curious how this requirement will be executed.
>
> Will the licenses all be collected in a class comment of some class?
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
Should we not have a class License and method licenseMIT ?
I think we have been sloppy with distributing the license with Squeak in 
the past. I can't recall any download wich include the Squeak License or 
any other for that sake.

Karl



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