>>> I'm not sure anyone really answered the question.
>>>
>>> (a) Yes you can build squeak/pharo VM based applications for the iOS platform and distribute in the App Store. This assumes you adhere to the rules.
>>>
>>> (b) Yes you can build Squeak/pharo VM based applications for the OS-X platform and distribute in the OS-X App Store.  This assumes someone wants to take the time to port the file dialog logic from Sophie to Pharo since you will be rejected if you present a Squeak file open/save dialog.
>>>
>>> Thanks John.
>>>
>>> Is the licence of Sophie file dialog code MIT ?
>>
>> Yes but we do not really want to have the copyright of a university in pharo. This is why alain rewrote from scratch the undo.
>>
> Actually, the problem was that it is BSD... which is not the faullt of Sophie, this was what was thought as being good at that point
> in time. Later people understood that MIT is even better...
>
> Wikepedia says:
>
> The MIT License is similar to the 3-clause "modified" BSD license, except that the BSD license contains a notice prohibiting the use of the name of the
> copyright holder in promotion. This is sometimes present in versions of the MIT License, as noted above.
> The original BSD license also includes a clause requiring all advertising of the software to display a notice crediting its authors.
> This "advertising clause" (since disavowed by UC Berkeley[7]) is present in the modified MIT License used by XFree86.
>
> The MIT License states more explicitly the rights given to the end-user, including the right to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
> sell the software.
>
> For the Undo it was nor really worth to think about what it means to add BSD (and which of the BSD?) licensed code to an MIT licensed system...
>
> Marcus
>
> --
> Marcus Denker  -- http://www.marcusdenker.de
> INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
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