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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