On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:21:33PM +0300, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> I don't think the status quo is that bad as a situation - but it stinks
> if it is permanent. A situation has arisen where people can live well
> using just free software, and I'd like to know that Squeak will one day
> be free too.
> 
> I agree that a relicense to BSD is better than APSL is better than
> SqueakL, which is much better than nothing. But as I pointed out,
> whatever Apple does, Squeak won't be free, unless we decide to fix it.

Cees raised a good point though.  Even if we were to rewrite big chunks
of the system, we would still have to worry about 1) accusations that 
the rewrites weren't "clean-room" 2) patents.  There's really nothing
that we can possibly do to rid ourselves of potential legal hassles.

Joshua


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> Daniel