On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Jordan Mantha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Caroline Ford > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'm 99.9% certain they used to have a BSD-style license so maybe you >>> can get an earlier copy of the image. >> >> I've closed the bug unless anyone can find the BSD licensed version. >> >> We don't package non-free software. > > Just a little correction here. We do package non-free software, we > just put it in the Multiverse repository and can't distribute it on > the Edubuntu CD. Note that currently Squeak itself is non-free and in > Multiverse so Scratch would have to go there anyway until we have a > free Squeak (Debian's Squeak VM is free apparently, but it's a svn > snapshot, completely different packaging, and I didn't have time in > Hardy to work out all the bugs of switching). > > I've been the unofficial squeak maintainer for a couple years, but I > don't use it at all and there are a lot of peculiarities to Squeak, > enough that I really think a person who uses and knows squeak should > be maintaining it. It's a relatively important educational subclass of > packages since OLPC is using it and there are projects such as > Squeakland and Scratch that would be great to get to educators. > Perhaps we can find somebody who's using Ubuntu (of any kind) and > Squeak who would be willing to learn some packaging. I'd be happy to > help get them going, but unless someone steps forward I doubt I'm > going to have time to do much with squeak.
There was an announcement last year I think that Squeak was going to be relicensed under a bsd-style license (I forget which one), but I haven't seen if this was actually done and on which versions. The switch was mostly inspired by OLPC, I believe. This would have specifically covered the original code written at Apple. Like a lot of old open source projects (and Squeak is ancient by software standards) there is also a lot of code of unknown provenance in there. --Tom -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
