On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 04/20/2011 08:05 PM, Walter Bender wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> AFAIK (please correct me) Uruguay is not providing code, thus in >>> violation >>> of GNU license, and this situation has not been solved after several >>> years. >> >> This is a serious accusation. Can you please provide some backup? >> Specific to Sugar? > > If it is serious, why hasn't it been *solved* before?
There has not been any accusation prior to yours that Ceibal was violating the GPL in regard to Sugar. > 2009: > > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2009-August/004247.html > > 2010: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14915.html > > > > Walter, I am too dumb to know the full ins and outs of this. I also have > been advised that I should not mess with this because (as I understood it) > there's some sort of insider arrangement I do not know and clearly I am not > supposed to know, but time passes and the matter is not solved. > You know this is no new issue, so I find it really out of place (and it > hurts a bit) that I am pointed out like the "serious accuser", eh? We have been as a community working on the general issue of getting machines 'unlocked' in Uruguay, as as Bernie points out, we have apparently succeeded. Your serious accusation about Sugar was new and was a bit out of the blue. And your proposed remedies a bit extreme. And you presented no new evidence. I don't think you were treated unfairly. You were given thoughtful responses from the community as to why they think you are incorrect in this instance. I am not sure what else you could have expected in the case that you were wrong. > > BTW, if the "accusation" were true, who should write that cease-and-desist > letter to Ceibal? I had spoken to the FSF about this (and the SFLC) and they both had recommended the path we took: work with Ceibal to remedy the situation. > > Now, if this is irrelevant to Sugar's GPL, I apologize again, pull down my > flag and take my spanking like a man. As far as I know, it is irrelevant to Sugar's GPL. Which is why I asked you to explain to the community why you thought otherwise. > > IMHO, if we are to learn anything from the current 3 cups of tea thing, it > is that it works to all's benefit to sort these things out in the open. > Where are we not being open? regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
