Sublicensing

Stephen Pair stephen at pairhome.net
Tue Aug 19 20:39:31 UTC 2003


Stoffel, Andrew wrote:

> > From: Colin Putney [mailto:cputney at wiresong.ca]
>
> > On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 11:54 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
>
> > > In other words, what Disney actually owned, we were careful to leave
> > > behind, and Disney owns nothing else. Apple really did own all the
> > > rights to its early implementation of Smalltalk-80 (as did the other
> > > first adopters -- but not the later adopters).
> >
> > I'm really confused by this last bit. This is the second time
> > in recent memory that someone has stated that Disney doesn't own
> > any of the their contributions to Squeak.
>
> I'm, personally speaking, confused by the confusion. %-).
>
> My interpretation of Alan's statement is that all the work done
>  IN/WITH Squeak while Squeak Central was at Disney FOR Disney was
> kept separate from Squeak Central contributions to publicly available
> Squeak so that there isn't any "contamination" of "public" Squeak
> with Disney owned squeak-work.
>

Actually, I think Colin's assessment is quite correct and his concern 
valid.  The question is, does Disney own the work that SqC produced 
while in their employment?  I think you can only answer that question by 
looking at their employment contract.  If it is like most, then Disney 
does own all of the software that was produced by SqC while in their 
employment...including those things that were made available under 
SqueakL.  However, since that software was made available under SqueakL, 
I think for all practical intents and purposes, it's a moot point.  The 
only issue that might be of concern is that if there was ever a desire 
to make the relevant code available under a license that is incompatible 
with SqueakL, then it may technically require the approval of Disney.

- Stephen

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