Re: ITP: squeak-vm, squeak-image, squeak-sources -- A highly portable Smaltalk system
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On Thursday 31 May 2001 1:49 am, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote:
> > addendum:
> > I am planning to put it in non-us/non-free because of clause 6 of
> > the license folowing some discussion on OPN.
>
> I think that the "Apple License" is not free anyway. Eric Raymond is
> pleased to welcome Apple in the Open Source community, but Richard
> Stallman is not accepting that license for the Free Software
> community.
I will make the license available at:
http://people.debian.org/~bagpuss/copyright
I accept that the licernse is non-free. But I can't see why it is
non-free enough to prevent it being in section non-us/non-free. Any
input on this is happily looked at.
>
> And btw, if all those companies really wanted to be part of the free
> software movement, they would use a license such as the GPL or the
> X11 license.
I make no value judgements on companies wanting to join the free
software movement and whther the licenses they come up with to
facilitate this are good or bad. *This* license does not meet the
DFSG, therefore *this* package must go in non-free due (at the very
least) to the resrictions of use of the fonts. I also believe that it
is non-us because of clause 6 of the license. I am not as fanatical as
RMS for example about the ideals of free software, I think he takes it
to excessive extremes sometimes.
Is the upshot of your mail saying that it should be in non-free? (which
I had already accepted and pointed out) Or is it saying that it is not
packageable? (which I can't see any reason for I have to admit)
a little confused and just looking for clarification
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Stephen Stafford
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