A post about SqueakL

Giovanni Corriga giovanni at corriga.net
Mon Sep 12 20:48:19 UTC 2005


Il giorno lun, 12/09/2005 alle 20.14 +0200, Cees De Groot ha scritto:
> On 9/12/05, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1) is the likelihood of getting a positive response from Disney high
> > enough to bother going ahead with a petition, etc?
> >
> Some thoughts about a usually very hot place suddenly getting below 32
> fahrenheit come up....
>  
> > 2) would it be better to request that the copyright be transferred to
> > the Squeak Foundation than to request the software be relicensed?
> > 
> It'd be great, but also unlikely to happen. 
> 
> Anyway, the issue is *probably* moot - even Disney's contributions are
> not too relevant at this point in time, and it's probably way easier
> to remove it than to work through the combined legal departments of
> Apple&Disney.
> 

According to a message sent by Alan Kay to this list
( http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2003-August/065270.html )
there is no Disney owned code in the versions distributed by
SqueakCentral. If this is true, things would be really simpler: Apple is
more open source friendly than Disney.

	Giovanni




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