<div dir="ltr">I believe Oracle GPL'd the code itself, as I remember it was the extension pack & installer that had licensing issues... in any case, topics for the SFC to help with<div> </div><div>Sean</div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Sean DALY <<a href="mailto:sdaly.be@gmail.com">sdaly.be@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Not only doable, has been done for some time now [1,2] and is multi-platform > (& what I use to demo Sugar on a Mac) > > The Oracle PUEL license [3] very interestingly permits free redistribution > for educational purposes, opening the possibility of a single installer, > ideal for our needs. > > In the past I have suggested approaching Oracle for a marketing partnership > under a CSR (corporate social responsibility) banner. </div>One issue we bump up against is the stricture to only host FOSS materials. So if we were to have such a partnership, it may have to hosted elsewhere. (VMWare has a similar program) -walter <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> > > Sean > > 1. <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox</a> > 2. <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/VirtualBox" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/VirtualBox</a> > 2. <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL" target="_blank">https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL</a> > > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="mailto:gonzalo@laptop.org">gonzalo@laptop.org</a>> wrote: >> >> At least the virtualbox looks doable and a good way to show Sugar. >> >> Gonzalo >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Narvaez <<a href="mailto:dwnarvaez@gmail.com">dwnarvaez@gmail.com</a>> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thursday, 7 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote: >>>> >>>> The larger problem is the absence of a marketing strategy, we need to >>>> know where we are going to communicate effectively. In particular, we need >>>> to choose and implement how to offer Sugar tryout to teachers and >>>> journalists. >>> >>> >>> I can think of a couple of approaches >>> >>> * Get Sugar running well on the CuBox-i. Find budget to buy a few of >>> those to distribute to chosen journalist and teachers. Try to partner with >>> SolidRun to offer Sugar as an out-of-the-box installation option. >>> >>> * Make it easy to run Sugar inside VirtualBox on Windows and OS X. >>> Without having investigated too deeply it seems that a two step process >>> would be both realistically implementable and easy enough for the user >>> >>> 1 Install virtualbox >>> 2 Install a Sugar application (which would take care of setting up the >>> appliance). >>> >>> Thoughts? Other ideas? If we can agree on one or two concrete, realistic >>> approaches, I think we can at least attempt to get them done for 3.102. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel Narvaez >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Marketing mailing list >>> <a href="mailto:Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org">Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >>> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing</a> >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > <a href="mailto:Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org">Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing</a> > </div></div>-- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </blockquote></div> </div>