Groklaw article on Squeak

Ron Teitelbaum Ron at USMedRec.com
Sun Nov 19 00:30:50 UTC 2006


Thanks for the clarification, I missed that.

Ron 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Freudenberg [mailto:bert at freudenbergs.de]
> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 6:43 PM
> To: Ron at USMedRec.com; The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: Groklaw article on Squeak
> 
> On Nov 19, 2006, at 0:27 , Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> 
> > I mentioned it here: http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/11/15/
> > vote/
> >
> > It is http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/ which is, I believe
> > similar to,
> > BSD http://developer.apple.com/opensource/ps-faq.html#anchor10 .
> 
> Squeak has actually been relicensed a second time, under the Apache
> License 2.0:
> 
> 	http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
> 
> This is because although APSL is free (even by FSF standards) it has
> a patent clause that still prevents Linux distributors from using
> APSL-licensed code. Which was a problem for OLPC, which is why Alan
> Kay talked to Steve Jobs who agreed to relicense again. We got the
> idea because a similar thing happened to Bonjour (was APSL first,
> then Apache), so that is why we suggested the Apache license, since
> Apple's lawyers were familiar with that.
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> 





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