Sublicensing

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Sat Aug 16 21:33:26 UTC 2003


On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 01:56  PM, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> Colin Putney <cputney at wiresong.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> Of course not. He *is* intimately familiar with the VM. But what other
>> VMs is he also familiar with?
> Most of them, as it happens :-) I've actually worked for money on seven
> different Smalltalk VMs. They are _all_ closely related, which 
> shouldn't
> come as a surprise since they have to run essentially the same
> environment.

Exactly.

Joshua, let's take Ian as a less hypothetical example. He too is 
intimately familiar with the Squeak VM. Suppose he distributed J5 under 
the MIT license. Do you really think he'd be unduly vulnerable to a 
lawsuit from Apple?

Colin



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