Hi Andreas, I am looking at your ITP for Squeak. I was surprised to see the cutting short of the license from the last time I looked at this, and I went investigating.
I downloaded the source tarball: Squeak-3.2-4.src.tar.gz Looking at the file LICENSE in platforms/unix/doc in that tarball, it would seem that the license has not in fact changed and still has the following clause 5: 5. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold Apple harmless from any and all damages, liabilities, costs and expenses (including but not limited to attorneys' fees and costs of suit) incurred by Apple as a result of any claim, proceeding, and/or judgment to the extent it arises out of or is connected in any manner with the operation, use, distribution or modification of Modified Software, or the combination of Apple Software or Modified Software with other programs; provided that Apple notifies Licensee of any such claim or proceeding in writing, tenders to Licensee the opportunity to defend or settle such claim or proceeding at Licensee's expense, and cooperates with Licensee in defending or settling such claim or proceeding. This clause has prevented us from distributing Squeak in the past...a similar clause prevents us from distributing J2SE. I strongly recommend that you talk to Apple (or someone) about this. Perhaps you will have better luck with them than I did. (the limitations on fonts in clause 2 probably puts it in non-free anyway, but it isn't any kind of showstopper like this clause is) It's a pity, it looks as if Alan Kay has finally realised his 30 year old dream for smalltalk. I'm impressed with how good it looks from the screenshots. I will be getting it to play with properly tomorrow when I am at work and have proper bandwidth. Perhaps this LICENSE file is just left over from an earlier time, and Apple have in fact relicensed. I really do hope so, I would love to see this in Debian. Cheers, Stephen
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