On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:16:53 +0100, Lothar Schenk <lothar.schenk at gmx.de>
wrote:

> Copyright issues can become very nasty, as the SCO case shows. Someone had the 
> rights to that code and in all probability still holds it. Companies are 
> owned by people, and even if a company vanishes, that company's assets are 
> kept or reassigned. If the proposition is to include something from an 
> external source in Squeak, then we should make sure we have a bulletproof 
> license that let's us do with it what we want to do. To do otherwise leads to 
> incalculabe financial risks, because the copyright owner may one day - quite 
> rightfully - decide to exert his rights and claim damages for unauthorized 
> use.

I agree with you in general, but this code is useless in Squeak, so its
really not an issue. This code will be used as a template to rewrite the
browser in Squeak.

Later,
Jon

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