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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