<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Hi<div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/FAQ#What_are_the_principles_that_guide_Sugar_Labs.3F">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/FAQ#What_are_the_principles_that_guide_Sugar_Labs.3F</a> says<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div>What are the principles that guide Sugar Labs?<br><br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div>Sugar Labs subscribes to principle that learning thrives within a culture of freedom of expression, hence it has a natural affinity with the free software movement (Please see Principles page in this wiki <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs#Principles">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs#Principles</a> for more details). The core Sugar platform has been developed under a GNU General Public License (GPL); individual activities may be under different licenses.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That last sentence seems really weird to me, because as I understand the GPL, and I Am Not A Lawyer, then if Sugar is GPL, all Activities must be under GPL compatible libre software licenses. </div><div><br></div><div>Eg <a href="https://github.com/walterbender/turtleart/blob/master/TurtleArtActivity.py#L35">https://github.com/walterbender/turtleart/blob/master/TurtleArtActivity.py#L35</a> is linking to sugar.activity, and so if <a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/src/sugar3/activity/activity.py">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/src/sugar3/activity/activity.py</a> was GPL, it would form a combined/derivative work.</div><div><br></div><div>but in fact, while most of Sugar is GPLv2-or-later -</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/tree/master/docs" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/tree/master/docs</a> has copies of GPLv2 and LGPLv2. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/COPYING" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/COPYING</a> is a copy of the GPLv2</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-datastore/blob/master/COPYING" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-datastore/blob/master/COPYING</a> is a copy of the GPLv2 (oddly without the preamble)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/blob/master/COPYING" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/blob/master/COPYING</a> is a copy of the GPLv2</div><div><br></div><div>These say GPLv2 or later in the top comment of the source code files, but the list of authors is not maintained:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/src/jarabe/main.py#L5-L7" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/src/jarabe/main.py#L5-L7</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-datastore/blob/master/src/carquinyol/datastore.py#L5-L7" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-datastore/blob/master/src/carquinyol/datastore.py#L5-L7</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/blob/master/browser.py#L7-L8" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/blob/master/browser.py#L7-L8</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>- I found that sugar-base and sugar-toolkit-gtk3 (and perhaps other 'core' parts) are LGPLv2.1-or-later:<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-base/blob/master/COPYING" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-base/blob/master/COPYING</a> is a copy of the LGPLv2.1 </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/COPYING">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/COPYING</a> <br></div>is a copy of the LGPLv2.1 <br></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-base/blob/master/src/sugar/__init__.py#L5-L7" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-base/blob/master/src/sugar/__init__.py#L5-L7</a> says LGPLv2.1-or-later<br><br><a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/src/sugar3/env.py#L6-L7">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/src/sugar3/env.py#L6-L7</a> says LGPLv2.1-or-later</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, I am curious :) </div><div><br></div><div><div>Are there any proprietary Sugar activities?</div></div><div><br></div><div>Have any parts of Sugar become GPLv3-or-later?</div><div><br></div><div>The activities on ASLO have a variety of licenses, and it seems somewhat unmanaged. At random I picked <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4548" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4548</a> and it has a copy of the LGPLv3, but the code headers says GPLv2-or-later. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Is it ASLO policy to only host works licensed under GPLv2-or-later compatible licenses, or is another criteria used?</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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