Squeak Relicensed Under APSL2

Craig Latta, speaking for the board of the Squeak Foundation, made the following announcement today to the Squeak-Dev mailing list:

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

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Craig Latta
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www.netjam.org
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