On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 01:45:24PM -0500, Kevin Fisher wrote:

>The Squeak license is also "quite free" and I don't see any show stoppers
>with it (but IANAL).  If it were one of the standard open source licenses
>(FreeBSD, LGPL, GPL, X11, etc.), people would have to think about it less.
>That's one advantage of using a standard license: people know it and,
>more importantly, their legal department knows it.  The way it is,
>people will ask for clarification, but I don't see a big debate erupting.


We plan to propose using Squeak for a significant project (for my company) and 
have advertised it as "open source: what Linux is to Unix, Squeak is to 
Smalltalk".  What is the significant difference between Squeak's "open source" 
agreement and Linux's (GPL)?

Elzbieta