Sublicensing

Markus Gaelli gaelli at emergent.de
Fri Aug 15 16:13:51 UTC 2003


Hi,

> As a half-measure to get Squeak into Debian (since, as I understand
> it, their main concern is their own liability), references to Apple
> could be replaced by "the Distributor", with Distributor being defined
> as "Apple Computer, or any party who has received and later
> distributes the Software or Modified Software according to the terms
> of the license".
>
> This would not remove the problem with the export clause, so Squeak
> could not go in Debian-free, but should provide enough protection
> to the Debians that they would be able to put it in Debian-nonfree.

Sounds very reasonable, I like that idea very much.
Let's do that and go Debian non-free...

Markus



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