Sublicensing

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Fri Aug 15 19:36:24 UTC 2003


On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:27:14PM +0200, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
> >>Now, this lawyer is not a copyright/opensource expert, and it is
> >>possible we'll find someone more confident about getting smart. But I
> >>think we need to start planning on solving this problem by organizing
> >>*and by coding*, rather than by PR, lawyers or licensing. I say this
> >>quite sadly, because this will not be easy to do :-( OTOH, it could be
> >>fun. Anyone care to design a new VM? :-)
> >>
> 
> Just  a naive question. If we would come up with a new VM, this would 
> solve the problem?

No.  We'd have to replace all the Collection classes, Magnitude
classes, etc.  Eg: pretty much anything in Squeak up to the point
that Squeak Central left Apple.  And maybe more.

> What means a new VM exactly how different would it have to be?
> Stef

Ask a lawyer!  That's a very good question.  Probably not that
different, since this VM is based on the blue-book spec.  Just
as long as code is not copied directly.

Joshua (IANAL)



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