Squeak License (was Re: [ENH] BDF fonts for squeak)

Giovanni Giorgi giovanni.giorgi at mlab.disco.unimib.it
Mon Jan 24 11:17:23 UTC 2000


Excuse me , I'd like to ask a few questions.
With the actual Squeak license,
may I write a program, and sell it with Squeak?
If a part of my program modify the Squeak core libs, I publish the source
with
only the changes of the core libs, but I keep "secret" the rest of code
(beacause I'd like to be as
Bill Gates :P)?
Can I?
If so, the Squeak license has less restrictions than the GPL!

Lex Spoon wrote:

> "Andrew C. Greenberg" <werdna at gate.net> wrote:
>
> > Yet according to RMS, a GPL library can not be linked with a Squeak
> > plugin, without rendering the entire image in which it is contained
> > subject to GPL restrictions.  Since the licenses are incompatible,
> > the images would then be barred from distribution, and possibly from
> > further use or modification by the person who merged them.
> > Unsurprisingly, the same result would have obtained if all Apple
> > fonts were excised from the image.
> >
>
> Incidentally, most GNU libraries are released under LGPL, not plain GPL.
>  LPGL has specific exceptions for linking.  Richard Stallman hates
> LGPL....
>
> Also, Squeak's license is *somewhat* GPL-like in that if you modify the
> core of Squeak, you are supposed to release those modifications.
>
> Lex

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