Squeak license situation

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Wed Nov 21 15:04:50 UTC 2007


>>>>> "Paolo" == Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> writes:

Paolo> Just as a rule of thumb, the FSF does not care about copyright for
Paolo> people who have contributed less than 10-15 lines of code.

Does this mean "the FSF has researched the situation, and their lawyers have
determined that the prevailing laws ignore such small contributions", or "the
FSF has set a policy of small contributions being irrelevant"?

After all, the FSF is not the ultimate arbiter.  The legal system is.  And the
FSF doesn't own the Apache 2 license.  That license is approved under OSI
guidelines.

Sorry to pick nits, but if the point of this exercise is to do it by the book,
I just want to make sure we're on the same page. :)

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