[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] 2009 Free Software Awards

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:17:00AM +1300, Tim McNamara wrote:
>2009/10/8 Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <rafael at sugarlabs.org>
>
>> fyi ..Sugar or it's representative should be nominated :).
>>
>> http://www.fsf.org/news/2009FSAwardsCall
>>
>>
>Hi all,
>
>Apologies for my lack of knowledge. Does Sugar contain any non-free 
>components?

In principle that depends on your definition of "free".

However, to the best of my knowledge, all parts of "Sucrose" - the 
official core part of Sugar, is free according to the Debian Fre 
Software Guidelines (DFSG) which I believe fit the "free" as defined by 
FSF.

Parts of Sugar (the squeak-vm package needed by Etoys) is treated as 
"non-free" in Debian but that is not due to licensing issues but rather 
the oddity of "source code" being binary so currently unmaintainable by 
the Debian security team.


So the short answr is "yes!" :-)


  - Jonas

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