using a different license
Craig Latta
Craig.Latta at NetJam.ORG
Mon Sep 11 02:00:13 UTC 2000
> > Andrew Greenberg writes:
> >
> > > Neither you, I nor Disney have the power to unilaterally change
> > > the license to something like GPL. To do so, it will be
> > > necessary for you to rewrite the corpus Squeak from scratch,
> > > because absent a relicencing from Apple, none of us have the
> > > power or ability to change this. If you are so inclined, go
> > > ahead an rewrite the system from scratch, subject to your own
> > > license.
> >
> > I don't think that's true. The Squeak license explicitly mentions
> > licensing Squeak-derived work with a different license...
>
> A different license, yes. GPL, no.
A few days ago you said:
> It might "seem" to be the case [that one could release a GPL'd fork
> of Squeak], but it probably isn't. GPL does not have the same terms,
> and to the extent the terms are different --obligations with respect
> to export regulations, for example-- GPL is arguably "less
> restrictive." Further, Apple may argue that the failure to include
> the Apple-specific language required by the license is "less
> protective of its rights." The combination of GPL's requirements
> against more restrictions and Squeak-L's requirements against being
> "less protective" are probably at loggerheads. There are other issues.
You used "probably" and "arguably" then, but a flat-out "no" now. Why?
Also, the word "restrictive" does not appear in the Squeak license;
what did you mean there?
Finally, please tell me where the Squeak license "requires
Apple-specific language". I see no such requirement.
At any rate, I disagree that one couldn't license a Squeak fork under
GPL. But it seemed to me that you were saying that one couldn't license
a Squeak-derived system under *anything* but the Squeak license; I
wanted to dispel such a notion.
thanks,
-C
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