[SPAM] Re: Proposal for a Squeak migration meeting

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Jun 29 13:59:46 UTC 2006


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Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: Proposal for a Squeak migration meeting
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"David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> writes:
> I think that the last thing anyone here needs yet another opinion
> from yet another legally-uninformed person, so I won't try to
> comment on legal matters.

You beat me to it.  I would shy away from saying we *should* assume
that Disney has rights at all over the public Squeak content.  It is a
subtle question.  Cees accurately points out why they might, but Alan
Kay has also pointed out why they should not.  This needs a real
lawyer.

Additionally, let me reiterate that there are many ways forward
regardless of how the question is answered.



> However, I would like to say that a great deal of progress can
> be made by focusing on *doing* the things that we *can* do to
> resolve the problem. For example, I personally would like to be
> able to send a letter or an email that clearly establishes that
> all Squeak code with the initials 'dtl' is hereby relicensed in
> whatever way the lawyers recommend. This will not solve the whole
> problem, but it will remove one small obstacle. If we all pitch
> in and remove as many obstacles as possible, the problem will
> get smaller, less scary, and ultimately easier to solve.


Agreed.  This part is very doable, and is worth focussing on.


-Lex


PS -- Goran, I read your message.  I simply responded to it and
several other posts simultaneously.


PPS -- Anyone interested in realistic open-source legal issues might
want to read about the careful and deliberative way Wikipedia used to
relicense their content to GFDL.  ;)




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