Squeak license situation

Karl karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Wed Nov 21 06:23:48 UTC 2007


tim Rowledge wrote:
>
> On 20-Nov-07, at 11:48 AM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
>
>> What is the situation regarding the change to MIT license for 
>> Squeak.org?
>
> There are *still* people that have code in the system and haven't 
> signed and sent in the licensing form.
>
> You can see a complete list of initials and the names we believe 
> attach to them, a list of missing email addresses and get a copy of 
> the license form from Craig's page at
> http://www.netjam.org/squeak/contributors/
>
> The following list of initials and names (where known) is derived from 
> Andrew Black's analysis
> AFi:  Alain Fischer
> ASF:  ?
> BJP:  Bijan Parsia
> BP:  Bijan Parsia
> EW:  ?
> JW:  Jesse Welton
> JWS:  John Sarkela
> KTT:  Kurt Thams
> LEG:  Gerald Leeb
> MAL:  Michael Latta
> MM:  marca?
> MPH:  Michael Hewner
> PH:  Phil Hudson
> PHK:  Peter Keeler
> RAH:  Richard A. Harmon
> RB:  Roland Bertuli
> RCS:  Russell Swan
> RJ:  Ranjan Bagchi
> RvL:  Reinier van Loon
> TAG:  Travis Griggs
> TBP:  ?
> abc:  ?
> ac:  Andres Coratella
> acg:  Andrew C. Greenberg
> ag:  Andrew Gaylard?
> aoy:  Andres Otaduy
> bmk:  Brian Keefer
> bolot:  Bolot Kerimbaev
> bvs:  Ben Schroeder
> de:  ?
> djp:  David J. Pennell
> dls:  ?
> dns:  David N. Smith
> drs:  ?
> dwh:  Dwight Hughes
> eat:  Eric Arseneau Tremblay
> edt:  ?
> em:  Ernest Micklei?
> emm:  Ernest Micklei
> hg:  Henrik Gedenryd
> hh:  Helge Horch
> jdl:  ?
> jj:  ?
> jla:  Jerry Archibald
> jsp:  Jeff Pierce
> jwh:  Jim Heyne
> len:  Luciano Esteban Notarfrancesco
> los:  Lothar Schenk
> m:  ?
> mdr:  Mike Rutenberg
> mkd:  Michael Donegan
> mx:  Maximialiano Taborda
> nm:  Norberto Manzanos
> nop:  Jay Carlson
> panda:  ?
> pmm:  ?
> pnm:  Paul McDonough
> programmatic:  ?
> r++:  Gerardo Richarte
> reThink:  John Sarkela
> rjf:  Ricardo J. Ferreira
> rlf:  ?
> rop:  Russell Penney
> rpj:  Robert P. Jarvis
> sac:  Scott Crosby
> sk:  ?
> tfei:  The Fourth Estate, Inc.
> to:  ?
> tp:  ?
> ts:  Torsten Sadowski
> ward:  Ward Cunningham
> wb:  Wayne Braun
> wdc:  Bill Cattey
>
> If you are one of these people, please go to the above webpage and 
> sign & send the form. If you know any of these people, please ask them 
> to go to the above webpage and sign & send the form.
>
> Oh, and I *think* that strictly speaking we're not in the business of 
> relicensing the system as MIT; Apple relicensed the 1.1 release under 
> the Apache 2.0 license and we are trying to get everything added 
> subsequently to be under MIT. So far as I can work out that means the 
> *system* as a whole will be legally Apache 2.0 but I am not a lawyer 
> and I don't even play one on TV.
>
>
> tim
> -- 
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Borrow money from pessimists--they don't expect it back.
>
>
>
>
We could list the number of methods these people have changed, some 
maybe just changed one or two, then it would be faster to just 
reimplement the method under the right license.

Karl





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