Squeak History

Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel.squeaklist at bluewin.ch
Mon Mar 17 19:29:32 UTC 2003


Allen Wirfs-Brock <Allen_Wirfs-Brock at Instantiations.com> wrote:
[snip]
> I presume that Squeak was based upon Smalltalk-80 Version 1 as that was 
> what was originally licensed to Apple (along with Tek, Dec, and HP). 

> As far 
> as I could tell, the primary reason for ST-80 V2 was the Xerox realized 
> that the V1 license terms were, from their perspective,  way too favorable 
> to the licensees. V2 provided an opportunity for them to revise the 
> license.  There were a number of times at Tektronix that we regretted 
> having updated to the V2 image and license.
> 
> Allen Wirfs-Brock


I once heard that a license was originally sold for a nominal fee of
one dollar. Was this the version 1 license? Or was that in another
context?

-- Hannes Hirzel



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