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 |
Hi David, I'm pretty sure there are unchanged methods from the Apple release, which would theoretically still be under Apache? It should still be fine, just cc'ing the board to see if anyone thinks your wording is not okay. - Bert - On 08.02.2011, at 23:59, "David T. Lewis" <[hidden email]> 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 > |
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+1 I've been confused by that in the past. On Feb 8, 2011, at 2:59 PM, "David T. Lewis" <[hidden email]> 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 > |
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