[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 at vpri.org>
Date: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Squeak images/relicensing
To: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
Cc: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>


Hi, Walter -

Here is a copy of my message to Jose.

 -- Kim


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Kim Rose <kim.rose at vpri.org>
> Date: April 4, 2008 9:18:11 AM PDT
> To: José L. Redrejo Rodríguez <jredrejo at edu.juntaextremadura.net>
> Cc: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org>, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org>, Kim Rose <kim at vpri.org>
> 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
>
>