Non-Commercial to a Personal Use license that in effect bars any use of an organization rolling out Cincom VW / OS applications without paying the license. Personal license now dictates only an individual in his own personal single workstation having / using VW.

There is a long list of email chain on the VW list that allows lot of stuff despite the legalese, but I guess it is still muddy and does attract the legal notices on various organizations.

"Original Apple code, which is governed by the Apache License.

Originally, Apple actually released Squeak under a license called the "Squeak License." While source code was available and modification permitted, the Squeak License contained an indemnity clause that prevented it from qualifying as true Free and Open Source Software.

In 2006, Apple relicensed Squeak twice. First, in May, Apple used its own Apple Public Source License, which satisfies the Free Software Foundation's concept of a Free Software License ^[6] and has attained official approval from the Open Source Initiative^[7] as an Open Source License."

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com> wrote:

Oh, my God! I will have to delete every piece of Smalltalk evidence!

Ah, but I guess it will be a while until they get to Switzerland. I just hope they do not catch me in Argentina.

Doru

On 1 Nov 2011, at 11:12, Damien Cassou wrote:

> I just received this email:
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> I heard some rumors about Smalltalk. Apparently, an american
> enterprise bought Smalltalk and is trying to make money by sueing
> users. Therefore, they changed the licence agreements (and maybe other
> stuff). In my company we have a strict interdiction to use Smalltalk.
>
>
> --
> Damien Cassou
> http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
>
> "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them
> popular by not having them." James Iry
>

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