Squeak License

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Nov 6 17:08:46 UTC 2002


Try searching the mailing list archives at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/

I would guess that there are well over a hundred messages 
discussing various aspects of the Squeak license.  In particular,
some discuss the difficulties of the GPL with respect to an
image-based system such as Squeak.

Joshua


On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:59:31PM -0300, German S. Arduino wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I'm trying to post in Savannah a new project
> (Biochemical Laboratories) that will
> be GPL licensed.
> 
> But Savannah and FSF doesn't permit to host Squeak
> project because Squeak isn't real free software.
> 
> They says:  
>          
> > > The fonts are definately not Free Software. The 
> > > choice of law clause
> > > is also incompatible.
> 
> My question: Some day Squeak will have a real GPL
> license? 
> Or is possible to make
> some modifications to release Squeak as real GNU (GPL)
> software?
> 
> Thanks and Best Regards.
> 
> 
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