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> Resent-From: Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]> > From: Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]> > Date: December 17, 2008 12:28:26 AM CEST > Resent-To: Sugar Devel <[email protected]> > To: Sugar Devel <[email protected]> > Resent-Cc: OLPC Etoys <[email protected]>, OLPC Development > <[email protected] > > > Subject: [Etoys] [RELEASE] Etoys 4.0 > > (resent with new download URLs and a bit more prose) > > Hi folks, > > this is the first release of Etoys 4.0. The major version jump > signifies the end of our two-year relicensing effort. > > Originally released in 1996, Apple relicensed the Squeak core under > the Apache 2.0 license in October 2006 - thanks to Steve, Alan, and > the lawyers involved. Then, Viewpoints Research collected written > relicensing agreements from several hundred later contributors under > the MIT license - thanks to Kim, and the Squeak community volunteers. > Finally, all the code in Etoys not explicitly covered by a relicensing > agreement was removed, or rewritten, or reverted to an earlier version > - kudos to Yoshiki for the bulk of that work. > > Looking forward to see Etoys properly packaged in more distros now :) > > We may have broken stuff while removing and rewriting, so please > report any oddities you notice. > > Note: Etoys comes in two parts, one is the base (in Sugar Glucose, but > will actually run on all platforms given a recent Squeak virtual > machine) and one the activity bundle (in Fructose). Following the > naming conventions the lower-case "etoys" package is the base while > the activity is capitalized as "Etoys". > > == Sources == > > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.0.2201.tar.gz > > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-97.tar.gz > > == Packaged == > > http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/etoys-4.0.2201-1.noarch.rpm > > http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/Etoys-97.xo > > == News == > > * removed/reverted/rewrote all methods not covered by Apache/MIT > license > * various fixes (#8928, #8929, #8879, #9058, and others) > > - Bert (for the Etoys team) - > > > _______________________________________________ > Etoys mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/etoys > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
