Hi,

There are many concerns with the Apple Public Source Licence. Some even
question if it should be called "OpenSource" at all!
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/4179.html

They also have just released Unix related source code. They have, not yet
anyway, released any source for the NSFoundation or NSAppKit Objective-C
Framework Libraries - the real heart or crown jewels of
NextStep/OpenStep/MacOSX. I guess they are testing the waters and a release
of these might follow?

How specifically do you think the Squeak Licence should be adjusted?

All the best, 

Peter W. Lount

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From: Andrew C. Greenberg <werdna at gate.net>
To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: OS X Server (Darwin) Goes Open Source!!!!
Date: March 20, 1999 6:34 PM

Last piece of follow-up.  Perhaps Apple will consider relaxing (and 
in some sense extending) its present license of Squeak, at least, to 
the terms of the APSL, so that Squeak's license can at least rise to 
the level of a full-scale viral GPL-style license.  I have not 
studies APSL carefully, but it appears to be a substantially more 
modern version of the GPL, addressing patent as well as copyright 
issues in the manner of the Mozilla license.

I'll give it a read-over this weekend, but perhaps the Disney lawyers 
ought to consider the opportunities this provides for Squeak and the 
Squeak community, at last "freeing" the last vestiges, if any, of the 
original Apple heritage.