Proposal for a Squeak migration meeting
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Jun 21 09:16:03 UTC 2006
>>
>> Tim you are pointing a very important point. After the announce of
>> the
>> change to APSL2.0 of Squeak1.1, we have to ask ourself which part of
>> {Squeak3.8}\{Squeak1.1} can be relicensed and probably much more
>> important which part cannot be relicensed.
>
> I very much doubt that there are any parts that cannot be
> relicensed, if in fact it is even really neccesary. What would be
> wrong with taking the position that the original squeak license
> (which is quite adequately free in my opinion) has been rescinded
> and replaced by the APSL? I think that would be compatible with the
> SqL clause about relicensing so long as it is no less protective of
> Apple, since after all they have chosen this new license. Surely
> *any* code released under SqL can be declared as relicensed?
you see tim this what I would like to know from the laywer we
contacted ( do not remember his name).
>> And of course we have to considerer in one hand the VM part and in
>> the
>> other hand the Image part.
> I think we've pretty much always taken the approach that code
> offered for VM inclusion is SqL and that it becomes community
> property. I believe that anyone that offers a community some code
> for inclusion into a community project is implicity donating that
> code in its entirety. If they're not.. well they can just bugger off.
>
> I truly can't understand this constant complaint about licensing.
> At one level it's a particularly obnoxious form of pseudo-
> intellectual masturbation since most of the complainers are not
> even faintly qualified to offer real opinions and at another level
> it's pretty much completely irrelevant. These so-called 'free
> licenses' are legally untested, rarely take any consideration of
> differing national boundaries and legal systems and generally smack
> of smackhead barrackroom lawyering. Five sizable companies I could
> name have had no problem with using Squeak under the baleful glare
> of the SqL.
Agree but this is another discussion :)
>
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> There's a guy works down the fish shop swears he's elvish...
>
>
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