El jue, 06-12-2007 a las 23:00 +0100, Daniel Baumann escribió: > squeak is supposed[0] to be unable to package for debian due to legal > reasons. can you elaborate on the current status? > > [0] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package >
Sure: Squeak is being relicensed from the old Apple license to a MIT license. There have been some hundred of code contributors[1] and most of them have already signed to relicense it. There is still some parts of the code whose authors haven't answer to that requirement [2] and parts of the code is going to be rewritten or removed from Squeak. So Squeak as a whole can not be uploaded to Debian yet. But all the virtual machine code is already under MIT [3] and available under svn [4]. That's why I plan to upload only squeak-vm and not any Squeak image to Debian. With the squeak-vm any Squeak image can be run: the official one that's not DFSG compatible yet, but also some others images that are totally free now [5] Anyway I'm optimistic and I think that the whole Squeak image will be available under MIT quite soon, as all the reimaining code and licenses issues are being studied and fixed by the community and the Software Freedom Law Center. I know the whole Squeak paradigm it's a little hard to understand to those that are not familiar with its use (the concept of program itself is not the same as with "normal" languages, same for the image or the vm), but I hope it's clearer now. Regards. José L. [1]http://netjam.org/squeak/contributors/ [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general/120620 [3]http://www.squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/platforms/unix/doc/LICENSE?rev=1569&view=auto [4]http://www.squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/platforms/ [5]http://www.squeaksource.com/KernelImage.html
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