I recently discovered, that MIT had changed the Scratch license from free to non commercial 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 Tom Hoffman wrote in his blog on October 14th: <div style="margin-left: 40px;">"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?" <a href="http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2008/10/scratch-goes-un-free.html">http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2008/10/scratch-goes-un-free.html</a> </div> 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 <a href="http://scratch.wik.is/Scratch_License">http://scratch.wik.is/Scratch_License</a> <a href="http://scratch.wik.is/Support_Previous/Scratch_License/License">http://scratch.wik.is/Support_Previous/Scratch_License/License</a>