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on http://idea.sugarlabs.org/drupal5/ideatorrent/idea/24 cu dogi On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Martin Langhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Chris Ball <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes. We ratified at a SLOBS meeting that non-free activities (or >> content) should *not* be hosted on ASLO, and attempted to specify >> what we mean by non-free: > > I personally think it is very good that free are clearly separated > from non-free, and I think it's good strategically for all involved. > > There is one aspect that will be tricky on the content side -- it is > very easy to create / release content that is in itself free, but > dependent on non-free software. Picture the well-meaning content > creator that releases a Flash interactive under a CC license (and it > uses fancy Flash10 things that are not in Gnash). > > Educational content creators aren't as educated as FOSS programmers in > the vagaries and politics of patents, software licensing and all (they > are educated in other legalities, usually). We can't flame them for > being dumb, they are smart about a different set of things. > > Much of their work will be what Debian would call "contrib" -- Free in > itself but depending on non-free bits. > > While 'contrib' in Debian is usually not very big, if Sugar succeeds > attracting content creators, it might be a big category... at least > until the free tools mature, and the authors learn why it matters, > switch tools, etc. > > It is a social process that will take a while -- I am sure there'll be > 'contrib' stuff for quite a while, maybe forever. > > </rambling background> > > So... what about "contrib"? > > > > > m > -- > [email protected] > [email protected] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
