license revocability (was "Closure Compiler")

Andrew C. Greenberg werdna at mucow.com
Thu Mar 27 01:07:54 UTC 2003


Interesting.  This may give some insight into the overtly Apple-ish 
tinge of Squeak-L.  Perhaps that language is necessary to assure that 
Squeak remains a "product of Apple's?"  Perhaps we need to assure that 
this remains so?

On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 04:50 PM, Paul McCullough wrote:

> > From my understanding it was without fee or royalty?
>
> While I don't have a copy of the license before me, I gave many, many 
> talks about our system at Tektronix. The more-or-less wording of the 
> license granted to the four companies was: In exchange for reviewing 
> the draft of the book and implementing the virtual machine, licensee 
> is hereby granted an irrevocable world-wide, non-exclusive, 
> royalty-free license to distribute the Smalltalk-80 system by 
> incorporating into a product of the licensee.
>
> paul
>
>



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