[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] 2009 Free Software Awards

2009-10-08 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/10/8 Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero raf...@sugarlabs.org

 fyi ..Sugar or it's representative should be nominated :).

 http://www.fsf.org/news/2009FSAwardsCall


Hi all,

Apologies for my lack of knowledge. Does Sugar contain any non-free
components?
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] 2009 Free Software Awards

2009-10-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:17:00AM +1300, Tim McNamara wrote:
 2009/10/8 Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero raf...@sugarlabs.org
 
  fyi ..Sugar or it's representative should be nominated :).
 
  http://www.fsf.org/news/2009FSAwardsCall
 
 
 Hi all,
 
 Apologies for my lack of knowledge. Does Sugar contain any non-free
 components?

afaik nope, at least for Sugar Platform
otherwise trisquel people should blame us :)
http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-sugar

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] 2009 Free Software Awards

2009-10-08 Thread Walter Bender
Not that I am aware of. And the Trisquel-Sugar distro is free all the
way down the stack.

-walter

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Tim McNamara
paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote:
 2009/10/8 Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero raf...@sugarlabs.org

 fyi ..Sugar or it's representative should be nominated :).

 http://www.fsf.org/news/2009FSAwardsCall


 Hi all,
 Apologies for my lack of knowledge. Does Sugar contain any non-free
 components?
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] 2009 Free Software Awards

2009-10-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:17:00AM +1300, Tim McNamara wrote:

2009/10/8 Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero raf...@sugarlabs.org


fyi ..Sugar or it's representative should be nominated :).

http://www.fsf.org/news/2009FSAwardsCall



Hi all,

Apologies for my lack of knowledge. Does Sugar contain any non-free 
components?


In principle that depends on your definition of free.

However, to the best of my knowledge, all parts of Sucrose - the 
official core part of Sugar, is free according to the Debian Fre 
Software Guidelines (DFSG) which I believe fit the free as defined by 
FSF.


Parts of Sugar (the squeak-vm package needed by Etoys) is treated as 
non-free in Debian but that is not due to licensing issues but rather 
the oddity of source code being binary so currently unmaintainable by 
the Debian security team.



So the short answr is yes! :-)


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