Kurt Gramlich a écrit : > who is willing to help? > > perhaps we should buy it, to have it free. > Like Eclipse. It appears that the last obstacle which make Squeak's license non-free is the paragraph about the indemnification of Apple if the company is sued about derivative works based on Squeak. Squeak's license protects the four liberties associated with free software (free usage, copying, diffusion, modification), but this strange paragraph is very poisonous. Let's suppose that the community of squeak users becomes significantly large, and that a random company sues Apple about a random usage of a random derivative work of Squeak made by a random user. Even if the trial is lost by the agressive company, it produces a lot of mess, beginning with the legal obligation for the random user to indemnify Apple for the lawiers' fees. As long as this strange paragraph will be part of Squak's license the opportunity of such a mess is open. The idea to buy the rights may proove effective. However, how may the bargain begin? Best regards, Georges.
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