[IAEP] [sugar] Sugar on Edubuntu

[David Van Assche]

I wasnt aware squeak was a firmware binary or a font...

No but seriously, that passage talks about just fonts.. not software
that uses wrongly licensed components, which is what squeak is

David

On 11/6/08, Luke Faraone <luke at laptop.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> This does not seem to be the case, according to
> http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components
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> "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."
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> -lf
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