[squeak-dev] The future of Squeak & Pharo

Douglas Brebner squeaklists at fang.demon.co.uk
Mon Jun 29 03:07:07 UTC 2009


Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "Miguel" == Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez <miguel.coba at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>             
>
> Miguel> I don't know of any organization backing with lawyers the
> Miguel> FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD (MIT/BSD license) effort and of course that has
> Miguel> not avoid using this OSes in real organizations and for mission
> Miguel> critical operations.
>
> The licenses of those projects has not changed, ever.
>
> Squeak has a very different situation, taking a product from private to
> semi-public to public source, with a lot of contributors putting code in
> during the "grey area" times.
>
>   
Actually, wasn't NetBSD bitten by the USL v BSDI & University of
California lawsuit which was over licencing of the commercial Unix code
that the early BSD code was based on?
 I'm pretty sure I remember them not being able to make their CVS repo
public in the early days because it contained commercially licenced code
from the original Unix.



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