[squeak-dev] Re: Squeak relisencing, Croquet consortium already did it...

Matthew Fulmer tapplek at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 04:23:04 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:16:53PM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
> To my knowledge there has never been a problem with Squeak-L in commercial 
> settings. All of my last four companies used Squeak under Squeak-L for 
> commercial products and that includes both huge places like Disney (which 
> is known for its notorious interpretations of IP and copyright) and HP, as 
> well as small places like Impara or Qwaq.
>
> It's only the uber-freedom guys (Debian etc) who have a problem with 
> Squeak-L; in commercial settings Squeak-L is quite acceptable.

The major reason we are changing the license is to get into the
Software Freedom Conservancy.

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