[Vm-dev] Clarification of license statement for SqueakSource VMMaker repository

[Casey Ransberger]

+1 I've been confused by that in the past. 

On Feb 8, 2011, at 2:59 PM, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> 
> Folks,
> 
> The project overview text for the VMMaker project on SqueakSource was
> written a number of years ago prior to the full Squeak relicensing and
> is now misleading with respect to license, which I believe to be fully
> MIT for all code in the VMMaker repository itself. For this reason, I
> would like to change the overview to include clarification of license
> status as follows:
> 
>  "This package incorporates the Smalltalk source code (Slang) for the
>  virtual machine, as well as the code generator and toolset for creating
>  the Squeak VM portions not handwritten in C (or whatever). The platform
>  support code is maintained in a separate repository (currently Subversion
>  at www.squeakvm.org). You will need to use a SVN tool to acquire the
>  platform support code. See the Wiki page (tab above) for more info.
> 
>  License for VMMaker project is MIT. All code contained in this package
>  is authored by signers of the Squeak license agreement and/or by persons
>  contributing directly to this repository under MIT license terms. All
>  new contributions to this project are required to be MIT licensed."
> 
> Are there any objections or issues with making this change? If no
> objections I will do the update approximately two weeks from today.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
>