Squeak Licence and Debian and Apple and Skolelinux
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Mar 24 19:15:27 UTC 2004
Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> wrote:
> The problem is that all of this is essentially ridiculous, because
> there is no way to prevent anyone from suing anyone, regardless of
> the disclaimers.
Yes. And other reasons as well. Squeak-L is safe in the real world.
> None of the licenses that are accepted by the OSI give anyone
> protection from any suit.
They do raise the bar, however. They make the lawyers at least earn
their pay. :)
> In any case, it would be nicer if the BS was BS that scared people
> less regardless of the actual facts and actual legalities.
Yes!! In addition, it is good to be in a herd.
-Lex
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