Squeak Relicense Push

14 May 2007 - I notice that the SqueakFoundation? is starting a final push to make all of SqueakSmalltalk available under OSI-compliant (ie. OpenSource) terms. AppleComputer is on board, so it remains to get the other contributors down through the years to put their code under the MitLicense:

http://www.cdegroot.com/blog/2007/04/18/squeak-relicensing-effort/

http://www.netjam.org/squeak/contributors/

As of 1 May it seems that there were still 121 sets of initials in the Squeak codebase whose associated contributions had yet to be signed over. That included a good few sets of initials which had not been (firmly?) identified with an author:

http://www.netjam.org/squeak/contributors/missingSignatories

So ...

• if you are or might be a signatory who hasn't been contacted yet, or
• if you might be able to get in touch with such a signatory, or
• if you might have a chance of identifying one or more of the mystery signatures,

why not take a quick look at the list and then take it from there if necessary?

Hey! I spot one:

 ward             WardCunningham

The alternative in cases like this is to presume they will not assign copyright, and rewrite their contributions. It is likely that half the folks on the missing list have only contributed a fix or two.