24 May 20:58
Re: The original Squeak release is available under APSL2.
Diego Gomez Deck <DiegoGomezDeck <at> consultar.com>
2006-05-24 18:58:08 GMT
2006-05-24 18:58:08 GMT
Very good news! Thank you all for the hard work. Cheers, -- Diego > Hi all-- > > Thanks to long-running efforts by folks at Viewpoints Research > Institute, Apple Computer and elsewhere, Apple has given Viewpoints > permission to make a release of the original public Squeak system using > the Apple Public Source License[1]. > > Squeak 1.1, with an APSL2 license, is available here: > > http://squeakland.org/installers/Squeak1.1-APSL.zip > > The Squeak Foundation board would like to thank the above groups for > making this happen, and everyone else for being so patient! > > And now we live in interesting times. This only applies to the original > release of Squeak (version 1.1 of 23 September 1996); we now have a > choice between APSL2 and the original Squeak License[2] for that > release. We need to decide what to do about subsequent code, and code > written by third parties. We might choose to rewrite some things so as > to create a better licensing situation. We probably want to have a > policy whereby contributors agree to grant a particular license to their > work explicitly before we can accept it. > > How shall we proceed with future releases of Squeak? Let's discuss it. > > > thanks again, > your Squeak Foundation board > > [1] http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/2.0.txt > [2] http://www.squeak.org/SqueakLicense > -- -- ========================================== Diego Gomez Deck ------------------------------------------ http://www.consultar.com/DiegoGomezDeck/ http://diegogomezdeck.blogspot.com/ http://smalltalk.consultar.com/ ==========================================
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