On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Gabriel Eirea <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/4/26 Walter Bender <[email protected]>: >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>Walter Bender wrote: >>>>I believe that root access is being provided routinely as part of the >>>> current OS upgrade. >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> No, The "plan Ceibal" don't give the root access neither a developer key for >>> programmers, with the new OS upgrade. >> >> This is new information and if true, quite regrettable. However, I am >> still unclear in regard to the implications to Sugar itself. You do >> not need root access to build and run Sugar in $HOME. Have they >> somehow disabled that ability? How? > > Actually, Walter, new information would have been otherwise. > > Of course they don't prevent the user from building the sources and > installing them in $HOME. This may be used by a competent lawyer to > prove that the GPL is not violated, and he may or may not have > success, but please don't pretend it is not a big issue. For all > practical purposes children in Uruguay can't modify Sugar and they > can't install new applications in Gnome.
Gabriel, Please don't put words in my mouth and please don't suggest that I am trying to defend a policy of making it difficult for the children to modify the code on their laptops. I have been pressing hard for root access in .uy for a very long time and I am very disappoint to hear -- just today -- that it will continue to be denied. But that is not the question on the table, Sugar Labs has an obligation to ensure that there is not a violation of its license and I have yet to see evidence that there is such a violation. Alas, it is exactly the lawyers we need to satisfy, so please don't condemn me for being particular about the details. regards. -walter > > Regards, > > Gabriel > -- 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
