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Hi, I am in the process of packaging Squeak. Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. To achieve practical performance, a translator produces an equivalent C program whose performance is comparable to commercial Smalltalks. The preliminary packages (binary and source) are made available at: http://people.debian.org/~bagpuss/ The license is an Apple license. It is non-free due to the restrictions on modification and distribution of fonts. The relevant part of the license is: 2. Permitted Uses and Restrictions. This License allows you to copy, install and use the Apple Software on an unlimited number of computers under your direct control. You may modify and create derivative works of the Apple Software ("Modified Software"), however, you may not modify or create derivative works of the fonts provided by Apple ("Fonts"). Which would appear to prohibit the fonts from being used outside of squeak or derivative works making it non-free. There is also a clause about US export restrictions (I think to places like Cuba). I am not sure how this affects the DFSG status or how enforcable this would be outside the US, but IANAL. (non-us/non-free?) 6. Export Law Assurances. You may not use or otherwise export or reexport the Apple Software except as authorized by United States law and the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Apple Software was obtained. In particular, but without limitation, the Apple Software may not be exported or reexported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) any U.S. embargoed country or (ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce's Table of Denial Orders. By using the Apple Software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list. There is a fork of squeak (Stable Squeak) which has new (free) fonts, and there is some discussion as to changing the license to GPL. I believe that the developers of Stable Squeak are talkling to Apple about this. For the moment however I have it packaged to go into non-free/devel. Squeak has an active and enthusiastic userbase across platforms and I believe it will be a useful addition to the archive. Lintian is complaining about a shared library. I believe this pertains to and will be covered by #66023. If anyone has any comments/suggestions/flames about this, I would be pleased to hear them. Rationale for having 3 packages instead of just one: Because of the nature of squeak, I believe this is the sensible way to do it. The system is quite big to start with. The VM is reasonably static and does not change very much. The image changes independantly of the VM. I see no reason to require users download 12M of archive when only 4M of it has been updated. Thank you for your time in reading this. - -- Stephen Stafford GPG public key on request -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Di2oFwmY7Xa4pD0RAgBVAJ0Sxse8IIM6t4HTKsmBLxk9WsSGiwCfd7Od B+O0lUgLzmXK7qFiu7Kotlw= =PQVQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
