[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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