On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 01:03, John Brant wrote:
> BTW, what is meant by publishing something under both the MIT license and
> the Squeak license? 
>
All that we'd need from you for SmaCC and RB is a statement to the
effect that 'this software is free blabla; alternatively, if you want to
include this as part of Squeak, you may apply the Squeak License'. 

Dual licensing is done in a lot of places. As the copyright holder, you
are free to enter in whatever licensing deals with whoever you care; so
if you let the public pick from alternatives it is completely fine. 

Some examples:
- Perl used to be (?) distributed under Larry Wall's own 'Artistic
License' and another license, I think the GPL. You, the user, could pick
what terms to apply;
- Alladin distributes Ghostscript under two licenses: the latest release
is under the AFPL which bars people from making money with it (in effect
keeping the 'commercialization monopoloy' with Alladin, so they can make
more money - at least that's the idea), the older releases are under the
GPL;
- Cincom licenses VW under the VWNC license to the general public and
under 'regular' license terms to commercial licensees;
- etcetera.

The idea - although personally I think your refusal to do so shouldn't
be a showstopper - is that you (the copyright holder) declare that the
SqueakL may also apply to your work (probably with the modifier 'as far
as it is included with Squeak'), which makes it possible to include RB
and SmaCC into the core of Squeak without further discussion. As the
SqueakL is, if anything, more restrictive than the current almost absent
terms you put on your webpage, that shouldn't pose a problem on your
side (we're the jerks voluntarily asking to be restricted in all sorts
of arbitrary ways devised by an Apple guy years ago ;-)). 

Unless, of course, you deem the works to be in the Public Domain, in
which case there's no issue at all. 


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