Squeak license situation

Karl karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Thu Nov 22 11:23:55 UTC 2007


Thushar G R wrote:
> hi all,
>
> Wat will be the role of young squeakers like me.......i am relatively 
> new to this business and i need help regarding understanding my role 
> in here? wat happens if MIT licence is given to squeak?does any of my 
> freedom regarding using sueak code will be affected...?I have 
> published something in squeak map ...will that be affected too...
>
> pls reply with details...coz i am new to this and totally ignorant bot 
> the leagal as well as licensing aspects...
>
> TIA,
>
> thushar(grt)
Your code on SqueakMap is under license of your own decision. If you 
want your code included in the official Squeak releases it must be under 
the MIT license.

Karl
>
>
> On 11/22/07, * Karl* <karl.ramberg at comhem.se 
> <mailto:karl.ramberg at comhem.se>> wrote:
>
>     Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>     > On Nov 21, 2007, at 3:55 , tim Rowledge wrote:
>     >
>     >> 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.
>     >
>     > Indeed - the board is trying to get clarification on this from
>     VPRI's
>     > lawyers.
>     >
>     > What we can say for sure is the history of events to date:
>     >
>     > ==========
>     > On 23 September 1996, Apple Computer Inc. released Squeak V1.1 under
>     > the "Squeak License" (SqL).
>     >
>     > On May 8, 2006 Apple agreed to relicense original Squeak Code under
>     > the "Apple Public Source License 2.0" (APSL 2.0).
>     >
>     > On October 12, 2006 Apple granted permission to relicense under
>     Apache
>     > 2.0.
>     >
>     > In 2006, VPRI began to collect "Distribution Agreements" for all
>     > contributors to Squeak since V1.1 up to V3.8, asking them to
>     relicense
>     > their contributions, which were originally licensed under SqL,
>     to the
>     > MIT license. This was a great effort on behalf of many and VPRI has
>     > 100s of signed documents agreeing to this.
>     > ==========
>     >
>     > This, I think, should be mentioned on
>     > http://www.squeak.org/SqueakLicense/ which is somewhat fuzzy.
>     I made some changes to the license page. It's still fuzzy but the
>     whole
>     license situation is a little fuzzy :-)
>
>     Karl
>
>
>
>
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> thuchu
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