Sublicensing

Piers Cawley pdcawley at bofh.org.uk
Fri Aug 15 22:50:49 UTC 2003


Daniel Vainsencher <danielv at netvision.net.il> writes:

> As I mentioned in a message to the list about 30 hours ago, I spoke to a
> lawyer and his advice was to refrain from creatively sublicensing squeak
> so as to make our problems go away. His reasoning is that the "no less
> protective" makes such attempts dangerous, because if the license we
> pick (say, BSD) turns out to be less protective, then we'd retroactively
> find ourselves to have been abusing Apples copyright.
>
> 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? :-)

I keep toying with the idea of trying to get a Smalltalk up on Parrot
(http://www.parrotcode.org)



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