IANAL, but I am slightly sceptical about what it means that APSL 2.0 is now
a "Free Software License". Given FSFs particular interpretations of "free"
it may turn out that for quite a number of users that "free" APSL 2.0 may
turn out to be significantly less free of restrictions than current
Squeak-L.

Cheers,
  - Andreas


> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Marcus Denker
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:57 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: Sublicensing
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 02:45:36PM -0800, Alan Kay wrote:
> > Hi Daniel --
> > 
> > I forget what licence Apple is currently using for their opensource 
> > stuff, but I've been told it is like BSD. Could you have 
> your lawyer 
> > look at it? It might be easiest to get Apple to relicense Squeak 
> > using a model they currently use, if it works OK for us. If this 
> > looks good, I'm happy to ask Steve to let us do it.
> > 
> Apple just released a new version of the Apple Public Source
> License (APSL 2.0). Seems to be that they worked closely with
> the both the FSF and the OSI to make sure that everything
> is perfect:
> 
http://www.opensource.apple.com/news/2.0-announce.html

 Apple is pleased to announce the 2.0 version of the Apple Public Source
 License.  It improves upon the OSI-approved APSL 1.2 by conforming to the
 definition of Free Software Licenses, as certified by the Free Software
 Foundation. We are grateful to Richard Stallman for his many helpful
 comments in this process.   APSL 2.0 is also being submitted to the Open
 Source Initiative to certify its continued compliance with the Open Source
 Definition. 

Should be perfect for Squeak. 

   Marcus


-- 
Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de  -- Squeak! http://squeak.de