The original Squeak release is available under APSL2.
Well, finally we have been able to announce that Squeak is now officially Open Source. I still don’t know what triggered this - it seems that Steve Jobs was in a good mood or something 
, but finally finally there is a version of Squeak that is OSD-compliant, etcetera.
From here, there’s still a long way to go - sort out all the contributions since Squeak version 1.1, see what needs to be rewritten, how to re-license stuff if we can reach the original authors of such code, etcetera. Luckily, we will likely have support from the Software Freedom Law Center here to make sure that we don’t do stupid things that will come back to haunt us in another 10 years.
We live in interesting times. Dreams of an open-source, secure, Spoon-based Squeak Operating System running Croquet…
Stumble it!
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May 26th, 2006 at 5:05 am
Isn’t Croquet already open source under the MIT license? Isn’t that much closer to what the Squeak community is building now?
May 31st, 2006 at 11:27 am
Croquet is built on top of Squeak. All the Croquet code is under MIT, but everything below that used to be under the Squeak License, which is in its intention open source, but didn’t qualify as Real Open Source due to some mostly minor clauses.