At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 06:39:02 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Sorry, I did not realize the importance of your reference to _later_ > discussion for your question.
Well, from my writing, it is not clear at all. (In my head, it was so clear, though^^;) Sorry about that. > Before I posted the above, I searched the public Debian archives and > found nothing(!) relevant. So I suspect the general Debian community is > completely unaware of tour hard work on relicensing Squeak, and the > ftpmasters' decision to anyway judge it as non-free. As I said, it seems > the discussion took place only discretely between José, Holger, Bert and > ftpmasters. > > I is possible that new discrete discussions with ftpmasters emerged as > result of (or independent from) the discussions here at IAEP and OLPC > lists in June. > > Jim Gettys and I are Debian developers and followed those threads at > IAEP and OLPC, but none of us are ftpmasters and I for one did not pass > it on to other forums. > > Holgers published summary and his lack of different viewpoint when > posting here yesterday, indicates no progress: > > Back in May ftpmasters recommended to openly discuss their decision at > the main Debian developers' mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The words "Squeak" and "Etoys" matched no recent posts to that > mailinglist. Holger clearly stated in his summary on june 13th that he > does not intend to start discussing openly until after the release of > Debian Lenny (which was frozen at some point in the summer and still is > not ready for release). > > I recommend asking the other participants of that dicrete dialogue back > in may if they know of any progress. > > Alternatively the mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] is open for > all, so you are free to initiate a discussion about the "non-free" > status of Etoys (as an example, and Squeak images generally), and to > raise attention to your relicensing work and the seemling lack of > results. I do not have the mental resources or detailed knowhow on the > topic to do so myself. Thank you for the suggestion. I'm so bad at emailing so I hesitate to dive in by myself... So, Bert, Holger, José, do you know if any progress made? ^^; -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
