License Question

I had a short look at several licenses: MIT, BSD, LGPL and SqueakL. If I could vote, I would prefer them in the given order. I like the MIT license simply because it is easily understandable and I do not have to read 20 pages of difficult legal stuff ... I do not like the Squeak license, because there is the name of Apple everywhere and there are some really strange things, as discussed in the Squeak mailing list. I don't have anything against apple, but I don't want non smalltalkers to think that they are using something from apple. What do you think? Lukas -- The MIT License Copyright (c) 2003 Lukas Renggli Copyright (c) 2003 Software Composition Group, University of Berne Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -- Lukas Renggli http://renggli.freezope.org