Andrew, would you mind doing a templated version of the SqueakL that
removes the apple  specific and font related things?  I started doing
that myself, but when I got into the stuff about exporting and citing
specific statutes, I became less confident about what I was doing.
Maybe it's already been done?

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Andrew C. Greenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:25 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Licenses for goodies Re: [ANN] kats-0.1a - a 
> smalltalk transaction service
> 
> 
> How about Squeak-L?
> 
> Seriously, there is simply no real reasonable alternative at this 
> time -- at least if you are concerned about the legal consequences of 
> the licensing.  And there are no other meaningful reasons to be 
> concerned about a license.
> 
> My recommendation is to adopt Squeak-L, or at least, to dual 
> license (if 
> you are comfortable with the risk that a broader license does not 
> violate your obligations under Squeak-L).
> 
> Anything else creates danger, and in some cases grave danger, 
> for those 
> who use the works or derive works from the goodie, and limits the 
> chances for broader distribution, and certainly for 
> publication, of the 
> goodie.
> 
> On Wednesday, August 1, 2001, at 12:56 PM, Karl Ramberg wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Stephen Pair wrote:
> >
> >> I wanted to release this under a license compatible with 
> the Squeak 
> >> license and basically require that derivative works be required be 
> >> released under the same open source license as the original while 
> >> allowing both commercial and non-commercial use of the transaction 
> >> system.  I started modifying the Squeak license, but didn't feel 
> >> comfortable doing so (because IANAL, and because I figured Apple 
> >> probably has a copyright on the license itself), so I 
> resorted to the 
> >> LGPL...if anyone sees any problems with this, please let me know.
> >>
> >> - Stephen
> >
> > I also wonder what the "best" license for a goodie is. I want 
> > something in the spirit of the Squeak license and not as 
> restrict as 
> > gpl. How about the bsd license ?
> >
> > Karl
> >
> >
> 
>