I blogged about this issue, citing comments here from tom, myself and pamela and mitch resnick has replied on my blog (3rd comment)
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/11/scratch-license-disappointment.html On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Pamela Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um. If you are trying to avoid forks, why would you want to allow > commercial? That inevitably results in forks, with some code going dark. > > Have you thought about LGPL? It allows commercial entities to use the code > without worry while protecting the codebase. > > I would strongly suggest you speak to Software Freedom Law Center. This is > exactly what they do. If you want an MIT-style license, they can help you > with this too. It's ultimately up to you, but doing a license without a > lawyer never works. > > PJ > > > Bill Kerr wrote: > >> Scratch forum: >> http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=77320#p77320 >> >> From Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Scratch Team at the MIT Media Lab: >>> >> >> There has been some discussion in the Scratch Team about this. Overall our >> concern is to avoid forks. In general forks are good because bring >> diversity >> but since Scratch is a tool for beginners we're worried about having >> multiple versions out there. This happened a little bit with Scratch's >> predecessor LOGO, there were a lot of versions, some of them incompatible. >> >> I am an Ubuntu user and I appreciate the choices I have for every element >> of >> the OS, but I do spend hours trying to figure out between apt-get and >> aptitute, Compiz vs no compiz, KDE vs Gnome vs Xfce, etc, etc. In some >> ways, >> Ubuntu has been able to succeed by providing something that works out of >> the >> box without forcing users to choose. >> >> I think we are going to change the license of the binary distribution to >> allow for commercial use but we're uncertain about the source. What do you >> think about forking in Scratch? >> >>
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