I have seen that brought up as a possibility. But I don't know that I've 
seen done in practice or in court. I could be wrong.

I've seen discussion about licenses being revoked but don't know 
(personally) if its been done in such a situation as this. ?

If we do nothing and do not clean up the license, then this will always 
be hanging over our heads, if it is a true risk or ability. To me this 
makes it important to make the attempt.

If this is truely something Apple could do at anypoint, then our work is 
always at risk, regardless. If it isn't something that could be done, 
then no harm it trying.

It would seem to me that Apple could improve its legal position by 
transfering rights to a non-profit corporation, thereby releasing Squeak.

If Apple were to revoke the current license it would not be good PR 
within the open source community. It would not be beneficial to the 
bridge they are building.

I really don't see Apple as the bad guy in this. (I may be naive.)
If they were I don't think we would have Squeak with its current license.
I see Apple as a business which simply needs to cover it legal backside.

Jimmie Houchin

Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jimmie Houchin [mailto:jhouchin at texoma.net]
>>
>><snip!>
>>
>>How can they hurt us from where we are?
> 
> They can say, "Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  Upon further
> review we've concluded that there's a possibility that someone somewhere
> might use Squeak to do something bad, so upon the advice of counsel we're
> revoking the Squeak license in order to limit our liability.  Shut down your
> servers and delete all Squeak-related files.  And have a nice day".
> 
> That's what they can do.
> 
> Bob Jarvis
> Compuware @ Timken
> 
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