Indeed.
The problem is not really the possibility or risk of fundamental flaw in the license, but an ideological opposition to things not GPL or conforming to certain notions of "free." While I am sympathetic to many of those positions, the proposition a lawyer should be engaged perform a "risk analysis" for prospective users, as though there actually were such a thing, by any person other than the prospective user, is silly.
Hi andrew. I'm sorry to be silly then.
You are not your proposition! While I don't consider myself silly, I frequently come up with silly ideas. You are truthseeker and academic enough to appreciate that my remark was not intended as ad hominem, nor any reflection of my respect for you. But the proposition *is* silly.
Sure ;) Still I thought that the request of this small company not knowing anything about Squeak and its license was making sense. Once they will have been developing their software in squeak and understand it better, I'm sure that they will see that the license is normal.
It appears that there is no ambiguity as to the meaning of Squeak- L, it pretty much means what it says. The dispute seems, rather to be whether it should say what it says.
No it was not the point of the original idea. People contacted me and asked if I could get an analysis of the license, since they are not lawyers and they are not familiar with Squeak and they heard a lot of different points on squeak (squeak license is the same as the one of flash, the same as java.......). So they wanted to know what were the problems so that they could evaluate it.
I get it. I hope my prior, more detailed and offline, remarks were self-explanatory.
Yes I will see what Cees write down because I think that people are often scared by legal terms especially in a foreign language so a text explaining simply the license will help.
Stef