Re: [IAEP] scratch license

2011-08-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
I'm using Trisquel on a Sugar Toast 4.51 and noticed that the autoupdater wants me to install Scratch, although its non-free both by Trisquel's definition and Sugar Activity Library policy. This is critical in a Free distribution like Trisquel, where we take the effort to rebrand for instance

[IAEP] scratch license (was: Next slobs meeting?)

2011-06-05 Thread Jecel Assumpcao Jr.
Chris Ball wrote on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:16:46 -0400 On Sun, Jun 05 2011, Bernie Innocenti wrote: The very short summary is that there are two different licenses for Scratch: one for the source code, which prohibits calling the resulting binary Scratch and uploading projects to the website,

Re: [IAEP] Scratch license

2008-11-30 Thread Bill Kerr
I blogged about this issue, citing comments here from tom, myself and pamela and mitch resnick has replied on my blog (3rd comment) http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/11/scratch-license-disappointment.html On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Pamela Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um. If you

Re: [IAEP] Scratch license

2008-11-14 Thread Bill Kerr
Scratch forum: http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=77320#p77320 From Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Scratch Team at the MIT Media Lab: There has been some discussion in the Scratch Team about this. Overall our concern is to avoid forks. In general forks are good because bring diversity but

Re: [IAEP] Scratch license

2008-11-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tom, Bill and others, On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:34:28PM -0500, Tom Hoffman wrote: Scratch is, or should be a trademark. [details snipped] Mozilla has very strict terms for trademark use -- so much so that it is called Iceweasel in Debian:

Re: [IAEP] Scratch license

2008-11-12 Thread Tom Hoffman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Bill Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mitch Resnick responded to my query as follows. I replied by saying I was not an expert on licensing and / or open source but that people on the IAEP list (and Tom) would be certain to provide some useful feedback. Hi Bill.

Re: [IAEP] Scratch license

2008-11-12 Thread Pamela Jones
Might I suggest that you contact the Software Freedom Law Center? They do stuff like this precisely. Trying to do a license without a lawyer these days is like pinning a bull's eye on your project. PJ Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tom, Bill and

Re: [IAEP] Scratch license

2008-11-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 10:53:05PM +1030, Bill Kerr wrote: I recently discovered, that MIT had changed the Scratch license from free to non commercial That is indeed sad news! :-( On reading the threads about the Squeak / Etoys / Debian issues

Re: [IAEP] Scratch license

2008-11-08 Thread Bill Kerr
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Jonas Smedegaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 10:53:05PM +1030, Bill Kerr wrote: I recently discovered, that MIT had changed the Scratch license from free to non commercial That is indeed sad

[IAEP] Scratch license

2008-11-08 Thread Bill Kerr
I recently discovered, that MIT had changed the Scratch license from free to non commercial On reading the threads about the Squeak / Etoys / Debian issues then it would appear to me that this will effect the distribution of Scratch on Sugar to Debian at least, perhaps others Tom Hoffman wrote

Re: [IAEP] Scratch license

2008-11-08 Thread Bill Kerr
I have edited my initial post on this thread and posted to the Scratch forum: http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=76772#p76772 (also forwarded a copy to mitch resnick and invited him to comment here) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project