Clarification of license statement for SqueakSource VMMaker repository

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Clarification of license statement for SqueakSource VMMaker repository

David T. Lewis
 
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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Re: Clarification of license statement for SqueakSource VMMaker repository

Bert Freudenberg

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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Re: Clarification of license statement for SqueakSource VMMaker repository

Casey Ransberger-2
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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
>