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Hilaire Fernandes-4

Re: License rewrite

Craig Latta a écrit :

>
> Hi Hilaire--
>
> > What about the free software foundation, may be they can provide input
> > in a quicker way.
>
> Well, I'll bring up that suggestion again at the next Squeak
> leadership meeting (on 2007-12-19), but we weren't keen on it the last
> time. The main nice thing about joining the Software Freedom Conservancy
> is it will give us ongoing access to legal counsel and a tax-exempt
> donation mechanism, without having to administer it ourselves (and with
> the ability to start our own completely independent organization later
> if we desire). Also, the community has so far reached consensus around
> an MIT-style license, and not the GPL or LGPL, so I suspect the FSF
> wouldn't be quite so interested in us.

Asking advices to FSF does not imply to move to GPL or LGPL.
FSF has a long time experience regarding free software license.
If FSF states that below 20 lines of source code contribution we should
not worry about the copyright owner (thanks Paolo) we should just follow
this advice (and it is an important one).

I have grouped information on the wiki, http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6016

My next target will be to identify these < 20 lines of code contribution
and remove them from the to do list.

Hilaire

timrowledge

Re: License rewrite

On 9-Dec-07, at 7:12 AM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
>
> If FSF states that below 20 lines of source code contribution we
> should not worry about the copyright owner (thanks Paolo) we should
> just follow this advice (and it is an important one).

It doesn't mater much what FSF thinks if it is different to the view
held by SFLC; the latter is the one we have to consider since it is
SFLC that is considering taking us under their wing. We don't get to
mix and match in this case.

tim
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Hilaire Fernandes-4

Re: License rewrite

tim Rowledge a écrit :

>
> On 9-Dec-07, at 7:12 AM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
>>
>> If FSF states that below 20 lines of source code contribution we
>> should not worry about the copyright owner (thanks Paolo) we should
>> just follow this advice (and it is an important one).
>
>
> It doesn't mater much what FSF thinks if it is different to the view
> held by SFLC; the latter is the one we have to consider since it is SFLC
> that is considering taking us under their wing. We don't get to mix and
> match in this case.

Well.

This week I will put on the wiki http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6016 a
set of working packages to handle the code still to be changed. Probably
something like 20 packages, so individual could clearly volunteer on the
task.

Paolo Bonzini-2

Re: License rewrite

In reply to this post by ccrraaiigg

> Also, the community has so far reached consensus around
> an MIT-style license, and not the GPL or LGPL, so I suspect the FSF
> wouldn't be quite so interested in us.

I am pretty sure that they would be (given that MIT is GPL- and
LGPL-compatible, while the previous licenses are not "free software
licenses" according to the FSF).

Paolo

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