Yoshiki. I'll forward this information to the Ubuntu Squeak maintainer. Do you know who I should talk to about requesting that http://www.squeak.org/SqueakLicense/ be update to reflect this information?
thanks david On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > 1. The statement Walter quoted (As of this summer, "all of the code > contained in our Squeak Etoys version 4.0 is covered by either > the Apache 2.0 or MIT Licenses.") is correct. Edward quoted the > email I sent around while ago. We have a license-clean Etoys > V. 4.0 developers image. > > > The problem here is that edubuntu and its packages are in Ubuntu > Main, > > and for sugar to be in there, there must be no non-free software in > > it, and squeak is not totally free. Apple fonts not being modifiable, > > iirc. Its pretty much the same policy as debian. Scratch was recently > > rejected from MOTU for the similar reasons. > > 2. Apple fonts has been removed from any newer Squeak-variations, > including Etoys. So, Apple fonts is not an issue. > > > Is the issue where squeak was originally licensed under a non-free Apple > license[1] and the squeak foundations can't > > locate all of the original contributors[2] to convert it to an mit > license? > > > > http://www.squeak.org/SqueakLicense/ > > http://netjam.org/squeak/contributors/missingSignatories > > 3. Just looking at "missingSignatories" without looking at actual > code is misleading because their code are alreay removed or > rewritten. > > 4. We haven't made an RPM or any package from the dev image yet. > Making a RPM doesn't take long, but we just haven't gotten around > testing it enough... Of course, one way to test it is to create > an RPM and have people try. If you say we should, we can > certainly do so from the current v 4.0. > > 5. So, if the license was the problem, there shouldn't be any > problem for including the latest version of Etoys into such > distros. If the development model is the problem, well, > solutions are potentially implementable, but would take some time > to carray through. > > -- Yoshiki > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >
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