Hi bert

john is travelling to the Smalltalk Solutions and here is the email he  
addressed to the ESUG board.

" Let me assure you the code was going to be released under the MIT
license when some/any foundation contributed some funding, which of  
course ESUG has done.

However to lower any concern or questions that ESUG has about what is  
going on I can forward you a copy of the source tree based on your
email about the approval of ESUG funding for this work.

I ask however not to distribute it at this time since I am about to  
refactor it for preparation for the os-x subtree and do not want to leak
source code I am about to discard, and I need to go back and add the  
funding by ESUG comment to each file once I see the ESUG announcement.

But as a gesture of good faith I'll ensure you have a working copy in  
your hands to address any concerns the board might have about never  
seeing the code.
Obviously you can check the file dates and licenses within each file  
to see that Meriks' comments are false accusations.
Please let me know if I need to take this step.

I'll address a note to Merik later once I deal with checking into  
Smalltalk Solutions, returning a rental car, having
an espresso etc."

I replied to john that we ESUG liked his email and trusted him (this  
may look a bit old fashioned nowadays but this is a value
we like). And of course ESUG does only found open-source effort and we  
like MIT.

Stef (on the behalf of ESUG).


On Jun 17, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

>
> On 17.06.2008, at 17:38, Michael Rueger wrote:
>
>> Merik Voswinkel wrote:
>>
>>> Apple agrees. I was the one funding John's 93 days and Impara, but  
>>> I have now withdrawn this funding because we only support open  
>>> source.
>>
>> Which is not correct as the funding (from NLnet) was supposed to  
>> support building an OpenSource iPhone VM. But that really doesn't  
>> belong on the mailing list.
>>
>> Michael
>
> But since it has been mentioned now, rather than having rumors  
> spread could you explain what happened?
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>
>