[squeak-dev] Re: ( picoVerse-:( ? MIT vs LGPL ? ) )

nicolas cellier ncellier at ifrance.com
Fri Mar 28 22:27:25 UTC 2008


Kjell Godo a écrit :
> The Squeak License seems to be an old one from the Apple days.
>  
> I found the MIT license at 
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php 
> <http://www.opensource.org/>
>  
> Is this the one you are talking about?
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The MIT License
> 
> Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
> 
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
> of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to 
> deal
> in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
> to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
> copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
> furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> 
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
> all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> 
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL 
> THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR 
> OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, 
> ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR 
> OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
> 
> ==============================================
>  
> So it seems to me that this license means that anyone P can do 
> whatever they want with The Software as long as the permission notice is 
> included in the derivative work which would then give anybody else 
> P1 the same rights in the derivative work?  To do whatever they P1 want 
> with the derivative work?
> 

This applies to copy of the software (original soure code).
If you distribute any other form (exe, dll, image...), then do what you 
want.

Nicolas




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