Laurence Rozier wrote:

>      > You can want to not worry about licenses all you want - but when a
>      > lawyer comes knocking at your door with a lawsuit, you might feel
>      > differently.  I'm not going to pretend to understand all the issues
>      > surrounding the GPL and the LGPL; I don't.  However, I can tell
>     you that
>      > corporate entities take license issues very, very seriously.
>      >
>      > Deciding to ignore a license could easily cost you a sale.
> 
>     I didn't say to ignore license issues, no, I just said to listen to FSF
>      responses which are clearly more competent than most of us and to
>     treat their opinion by spirit, not by letter.
> 
> 
> Janko,
> 
> I feel your sentiments and particularly if your legal landscape is 
> significantly different than in the U.S.. However, to me, letter vs 
> spirit s/b for when it's very hard to be specific and clear. FSF could 
> as Randal has constructively suggested, unambiguously align the spirit 
> and letter for this case. What they said was that they "don't have 
> teeth" which allows them to find teeth in the future. I'm not 
> criticizing them for holding that option in general - perhaps there are 
> other scenarios in which they would like to maintain it. It's just not 
> the same as saying "we won't". FWIW, I think this conversation has moved 
> the marker forward wrt clarifying things all around.

As a next step I would then propose that we as Smalltalk community ask 
FSF for official statement for our case. Such a statement will be then a 
guard for our future work and specially the cooperation among Smalltalks.

Janko



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Janko Mivšek
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Smalltalk Web Application Server
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