[Etoys] Etoys 4.0 Smalltalk copyright.

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Tue Dec 30 06:17:46 EST 2008


At Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:41:19 +0100,
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> 
> On 30.12.2008, at 10:10, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> 
> > At Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:41:38 -0800 (PST),
> > Jerome Peace wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Yoshiki, Bert and the rest of the gang
> >>
> >> 'Looking at 3.9 I noticed evaluating 'Smalltalk copyright'
> >> still claims squeak for Apple and Xerox.
> >
> >  Ah, that is interesting.  I now wonder what it should say, *if* it
> > stays.  We are not interested in maintaining the whole list of
> > copyright holders, nor include the license terms text in the image.
> >
> >  I'd rather remove it.  But what do you think?
> 
> 
> I'd rather amend it with something generic - "VPRI and individual  
> contributors" or so. Copyright is different from licensing, it still  
> applies and belongs to each contributor.
> 
> Btw there is also Utilities>>copyrightNotice

  Well, as for copyright holders, we cannot remove Apple for example,
and Xerox may hold the copyright, which Apple has the license to
distribute under their terms, perhaps (IANAL).

  So, not use our brain cells for these is the wise thing, IMHO.

-- Yoshiki


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