[Etoys] Etoys 4.0 Smalltalk copyright.

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Dec 30 06:27:04 EST 2008


On 30.12.2008, at 12:17, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

> 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.


Right. I meant "append" not "replace".

- Bert -




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