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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