Apple webcore license

Andrew C. Greenberg werdna at mucow.com
Thu Jan 9 12:31:03 UTC 2003


Presumably when we pitch this to Apple for relicensing,  if we do, we  
would broaden the scope of this clause to include all relevant players.

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 05:35 AM, Markus Gaelli wrote:

>
>>
>> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY APPLE COMPUTER, INC. ``AS IS'' AND ANY
>> EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
>> IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
>> PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL APPLE COMPUTER, INC. OR
>> CONTRIBUTORS
> Apple also includes the contributors to the software in this license,  
> this is good.
> But how about the distributors? Are they contributors also?
>
> I wonder, if Squeak could be distributed  with this license in debian
> or could they still be sued in theory?
>
> See
> http://www.google.de/ 
> search?q=cache:oBWtgqD02cUC:lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/ 
> squeak-dev/2001-October/ 
> 004793.html+indemnification+clause+squeak&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
>
> Best,
>
> Markus
>
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