What Tim's describing (at a glance) looks like BSD licensing but I'd have to check. 

Anyway: THIS PART IS IMPORTANT.

All new code should be contributed under the MIT license or a compatible license. To an extent, we have to trust people. If they don't tell us, we probably won't know. I am not a lawyer, but that IS my understanding. 

To combat the aforementioned problem, we should be vigilant about asking questions. I was under the impression that anything in the Cincom public store (or whatever it is called) was under a Cincom open source license which is likely incompatible. Someone who knows about this should chime in, but I'm worried that incorporating code from that repository may essentially cause us to have to rip that code out later to avoid poisoning the license on the image.

Please forgive if I have this all wrong. (Again, IANAL.)

Casey

P.S. 

With regard to the licensing of the code in the VM, I am less informed. 

> On Sep 23, 2014, at 4:08 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> 
>> On 23-09-2014, at 3:56 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:
>> After being developed as an internal and mostly secret project at Xerox
>> PARC for a decade, the company decided to release Smalltalk to the world
>> in the early 1980s (thanks mostly to the efforts of Adele Goldberg and
>> friends). Xerox got in touch with several other companies and made a
>> deal with Apple, Tektronix, HP and DEC to give them a license to the
>> Smalltalk technology that would allow them to do absolutely anything
>> they wanted with it for free in exchange for them dedicating engineering
>> resources to help with the process of converting a research project into
>> a product.
> 
> I *think* Apple got a slightly different deal and in fact HP etc were restricted rather more.
> 
>> 
>> Later on a fifth license was granted to Berkeley but I don't know if the
>> terms were the same. Tektronix created some "artificial intelligence"
>> workstations around Smalltalk (the 4404 and 4406).
> 
> Don’t forget the 4405 and 4409!
> 
> [snippety-snip]
> 
>> One additional detail is that when Ian Piumarta ported the Squeak VM to
>> Unix he selected to the GPL for his contributions.
> 
> He later changed all that to what looks rather like an MIT license to me; the only restriction is you have to include the license header in any copy of the file and accept that there is no warranty of any sort. See 
> http://squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/squeak/trunk/platforms/unix/vm/sqUnixExternalPrims.c?view=markup for example. I used the same boilerplate for my RISC OS files. The win32 & Mac files appear to have no relevant text.
> 
> tim
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