Licenses for goodies Re: [ANN] kats-0.1a - a smalltalk transaction service
Stephen Pair
spair at advantive.com
Wed Aug 1 18:31:03 UTC 2001
Andrew, would you mind doing a templated version of the SqueakL that
removes the apple specific and font related things? I started doing
that myself, but when I got into the stuff about exporting and citing
specific statutes, I became less confident about what I was doing.
Maybe it's already been done?
- Stephen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
> Behalf Of Andrew C. Greenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:25 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Licenses for goodies Re: [ANN] kats-0.1a - a
> smalltalk transaction service
>
>
> How about Squeak-L?
>
> Seriously, there is simply no real reasonable alternative at this
> time -- at least if you are concerned about the legal consequences of
> the licensing. And there are no other meaningful reasons to be
> concerned about a license.
>
> My recommendation is to adopt Squeak-L, or at least, to dual
> license (if
> you are comfortable with the risk that a broader license does not
> violate your obligations under Squeak-L).
>
> Anything else creates danger, and in some cases grave danger,
> for those
> who use the works or derive works from the goodie, and limits the
> chances for broader distribution, and certainly for
> publication, of the
> goodie.
>
> On Wednesday, August 1, 2001, at 12:56 PM, Karl Ramberg wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Stephen Pair wrote:
> >
> >> I wanted to release this under a license compatible with
> the Squeak
> >> license and basically require that derivative works be required be
> >> released under the same open source license as the original while
> >> allowing both commercial and non-commercial use of the transaction
> >> system. I started modifying the Squeak license, but didn't feel
> >> comfortable doing so (because IANAL, and because I figured Apple
> >> probably has a copyright on the license itself), so I
> resorted to the
> >> LGPL...if anyone sees any problems with this, please let me know.
> >>
> >> - Stephen
> >
> > I also wonder what the "best" license for a goodie is. I want
> > something in the spirit of the Squeak license and not as
> restrict as
> > gpl. How about the bsd license ?
> >
> > Karl
> >
> >
>
>
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