[Squeakfoundation] Allow MIT-licensed code to be part of "SqueakOfficial"?

[Andreas Raab]

Hi Guys,

There's another way of looking at this problem, which I'd like to point out.
If we assume to have a "basic" and a "full" release, then we can effectively
include in "full" whatever license there is. How so? Well, practically
speaking "full" would constitute only a bundle of packages, which are loaded
under their appropriate license. This will (naturally) lead to a pollution
of the "full" image with potentially lots of varying license, but given that
anyone who cares can use "basic" to load only the packages that fit his or
her desires, that's no problem whatsover. Hell, "full" might even include
GPL-ed stuff, since if you want to ship a system which is not affected by
GPL, you simply load your packages (I wouldn't really want this but it sure
as hell is an option).

So the point here is that if we have a "basic" and "full" release, the
licenses of the packages loaded into full matter not one bit, except from
what we think the most common users of "full" likely would accept (which I
think includes BSD, MIT and possibly even more).

Of course, this doesn't really solve the problem at hand since for SmaCC and
RB we're really talking about "basic" here. But it is worthwhile to keep
this in mind - it brings us down to a discussion on a much more limited
basis (for example, Jimmie's ezBoard example would fall through since this
were a package loaded into full).

Cheers,
  - Andreas