[IAEP] [sugar] Sugar on Edubuntu

[Walter Bender]

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."

-walter

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:04 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>> 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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