[IAEP] [sugar] Sugar on Edubuntu

Luke Faraone luke at laptop.org
Wed Nov 5 21:14:02 EST 2008


On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 20:18, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


This does not seem to be the case, according to
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components :

"The licences for software applications in main must be free, but main may
also may contain binary firmware and selected fonts that cannot be modified
without permission from their authors. In all cases redistribution is
unencumbered."

-lf
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