Freeing Squeak (license-wise)

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Mar 13 13:07:19 UTC 2003


 From the peanut gallery again ...

Consider the potential opening the can of worms, waking the sleeping 
dog, raising the lid of Pandora's box (or paste your favorite 
metaphor here) .....

Cheers,

Alan

------At 12:05 PM +0300 3/13/03, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
>Maybe, but I don't think so - IMO, when we're talking to Apple, it'll help
>if we can clearly say "we have agreement to pursue these options for 90%
>of the rest of the code, and will chuck out the rest". It simply sounds
>better than "tell us what you can do and we'll think about herding all
>the cats later". I think if we want to be treated seriously, it's better
>if we do our homework.
>
>Just as it'll be better if we can say, the Apple Fonts are no longer in the
>official image, rather than "we intend to drop those".
>
>Daniel
>
>Cees de Groot <cg at cdegroot.com> wrote:
>>  On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 07:44, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
>>  > Ok, let's do it. I think most people agree it should happen, so here's a
>>  > draft plan, please help implement and/or suggest fixes to the plan.
>>
>>  Unless we get the signatures from Apple and Disney, the whole exercise
>>  is moot. We really need to tackle these first (the rest is simple).
>>


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