[IAEP] Scratch license

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 10:53:05PM +1030, Bill Kerr wrote:
>I recently discovered, that MIT had changed the Scratch license from 
>free to non commercial

That is indeed sad news! :-(


>On reading the threads about the Squeak / Etoys / Debian issues then it 
>would appear to me that this will effect the distribution of Scratch on 
>Sugar to Debian at least, perhaps others

Scratch is not currently packaged for Debian, but Pierre Thierry (of 
Skolelinux/Debian-edu france) is working on it. Cc'ing the bugreport 
for that packaging work.


>Tom Hoffman wrote in his blog on October 14th:
>"Since it is un-free software it cannot be put in Debian, Ubuntu, Red 
>Hat, or any other free software distribution. Can it be shipped on the 
>XO? This license *significantly* restricts the distribution of Scratch 
>to children around the world, and to what benefit?"
>http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2008/10/scratch-goes-un-free.html
>
>I don't understand MIT thinking on this issue and am concerned about 
>this potential block in the distribution of Scratch (my current 
>preferred visual programming teaching program). It was for these sorts 
>of reasons that I stopped using Game Maker (never open source, 
>initially freeware but when it became successful it went onto a 
>commercial pathway)
>
>What is MIT thinking on this issue?
>
>also see
>http://scratch.wik.is/Scratch_License
>http://scratch.wik.is/Support_Previous/Scratch_License/License

Do you have an alternative link to the old license? Above page now 
redirects to the new license, and it seems that wiki does not provide 
access to older revisions of pages.


 - Jonas

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