On 12/21/05, tim Rowledge tim@rowledge.org wrote:
The middle three in particular have/had very deep pockets and so make very attractive targets for suing. This typically means they worry about such matters and employ many legally qualified people to check up on licenses and risks. The fact that they all had no serious problem with the Squeak license tells me that it really shouldn't worry us much.
Yup. Especially the fact that the Mouse didn't roar tells me a lot (a *lot* more than a bunch of amateur lawyers from the debian project crying wolf...)
In any case, before the licensing discussion rages again (which we cannot have, because it is not the time of year for it): we asked our SFLC contact to evaluate the SqueakL from the view of a company wanting to produce software with it. If they go ahead, we may end up with something we can place on our website - if anything, this could help a prospective company to take SqueakL (and thus Squeak) as good enough to merit a full analysis (said company would have to have their own lawyer give advice anyway, fiduciary responsibility etcetera).