Re: [Fedora-olpc-list] introduction and a question

[Walter Bender]

>  There was questions raised on licensing at
>
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList#OLPC_Wishlist
>
>  Perhaps you can talk to Spot (cc'ed) and get it clarified?
>
>  Rahul 
I've included below the correspondence between VPRI and Debian in
regard the license question.

regards.

-walter


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kim Rose <kim.rose(a)vpri.org&gt;
Date: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Squeak images/relicensing
To: Walter Bender <walter.bender(a)gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bert Freudenberg <bert(a)freudenbergs.de&gt;


Hi, Walter -

Here is a copy of my message to Jose.

 -- Kim


Begin forwarded message:

>  From: Kim Rose <kim.rose(a)vpri.org&gt;
>  Date: April 4, 2008 9:18:11 AM PDT
>  To: José L. Redrejo Rodríguez <jredrejo(a)edu.juntaextremadura.net&gt;
>  Cc: Bert Freudenberg <bert(a)freudenbergs.de&gt;, Yoshiki Ohshima
> <yoshiki(a)vpri.org&gt;, Craig Latta <craig(a)netjam.org&gt;, Kim Rose
> <kim(a)vpri.org&gt;
>  Subject: Squeak images/relicensing
>
>  Hi, Jose -
>
>  I hope you and your family are all doing well.
>
>  I have seen the recent exchange of email between you and others regarding the relicensing
> effort of Squeak to the MIT License. I can see you are mostly up to date with what is
> going on. However, as Bert has requested I wanted to write to you directly and confirm
> Bert's most recent responses.
>
>
>  -----------
>  Jose:
>
> >
> > Can you confirm me that the code that has not been relicensed has been
> > removed from the olpc image?
> >
>
>  Bert:
>
>  No. But VPRI as the original authors take responsibility for the earlier contributions
> made under the Squeak License. VPRI made every justifiable effort to contact the
> contributors. Not a single contributor was against relicensing, so it is safe to assume
> that even those that could not be reached would be happy to see their code continue to be
> used. They submitted it for official inclusion in Squeak, after all. So who would argue
> that, if not the contributors themselves?
>
>  ----------
>
>  As Bert says VPRI spearheaded an effort to contact *every* contributor to the Squeak code
> base.  We did not receive a single negative response and have a notebook with 100s of
> signed re-licensing agreements.  We also put out several "speak now or forever hold
> your peace" group emails indicating the relicensing was taking effect and should
> anyone object to relicensing their code to let us know.
>
>  Our attitude is the code IS now relicensed under the MIT license.  Should, a contributor,
> at any time, write to VPRI and request their code be taken out of the code base, we would
> comply.
>
>  Please do not let this interfere with or hold up your efforts.
>
>  Thanks again and best regards,
>  Kim
>
>