[IAEP] etoys in Debian main (Re: [sugar] Sugar on Edubuntu)

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Thursday 06 November 2008 04:48, Walter Bender wrote:
> 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."

Yup.

Even for etoys 3.0.1916+svn132-2 licencing or copyright issues are _not_ the 
reason why its in Debians non-free repository and not in main.

The reason is, that the Debian ftpmasters are (AIUI) of the opinion that etoys 
doesn't build from sources, as its shipped as binary objects, to make a long 
story short. (It has roughly been bootstrapped 14 times since 1977 or so.)

It's on my todo list to file a proper bug in Debian about this soon. Actually, 
it's not really on my todo list, but _one out of two_ remaining emails from 
the time I used my inbox as a todo list... ;-)

I plan to file this bug by preparing it on a wiki page (!) as I would like to 
presend the whole situation comprehensible and to the point. I will announce 
that page before I submit this bug here, stay tuned, but it probably will 
take some time still.

If someone wants to start such a wiki page now, please go ahead.


regards,
	Holger
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