I am pretty sure it wasn't the case. I phoned Digitalk's Jim Anderson to try to negotiate a license to let me use their image with my 68000 based virtual machine (this was before Digitalk had any Mac versions) so I paid very close attention to the details of their licensing agreement.
Smalltalk/V was distributed as a nearly empty v.exe file plus a list of .dll files. As you developed your code it would get added to the v.exe so your stuff would always be clearly separated from Digitalk's. The .dlls were divided into two groups: basic system and development. The license allowed you to freely redistribute all files except for the development .dlls. If a client of yours wanted those for some reason they would have to buy their own Smalltalk V/DOS from Digitalk.
Except for the source to bytecode compiler, which was secret, the rest of the development system's sources were available. That meant that I didn't actually need Digitalk's permission to do what I wanted since I mostly wanted their sources (I had no idea how much Xerox would charge for the "real" Smalltalk but supposed it would be a lot more than what Digitalk might agree to). But I didn't want to take advantage of their not so well thought out license and upset them. Jim said he didn't think I would be able to port their stuff to the 68000 and didn't give permission for me to try, so I just went in a different direction.
Smalltalk/V was distributed as a nearly empty v.exe file plus a list of .dll files. As you developed your code it would get added to the v.exe so your stuff would always be clearly separated from Digitalk's. The .dlls were divided into two groups: basic system and development. The license allowed you to freely redistribute all files except for the development .dlls. If a client of yours wanted those for some reason they would have to buy their own Smalltalk V/DOS from Digitalk.
Except for the source to bytecode compiler, which was secret, the rest of the development system's sources were available. That meant that I didn't actually need Digitalk's permission to do what I wanted since I mostly wanted their sources (I had no idea how much Xerox would charge for the "real" Smalltalk but supposed it would be a lot more than what Digitalk might agree to). But I didn't want to take advantage of their not so well thought out license and upset them. Jim said he didn't think I would be able to port their stuff to the 68000 and didn't give permission for me to try, so I just went in a different direction.