[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Physics: license fixes #1596

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 03:59:10AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 21 Jun 2010, at 04:36, James Cameron wrote:
> > Found some patches in my repository not yet merged upstream, so I'm
> > sending them again.

I was wrong, you had merged them by applying the changes ... just that
they didn't have the same hash as mine.

b1c1c2de2059e167738fb2b772844947163ed994 was where you merged them.

I too was mishandling git.  I'm getting very good at that.

> P.S. I'm no lawyer so I'll just have to accept these legal text
> changes from you with no understanding of why they are needed.

Relax, as long as you credit me, it's my responsibility.

Anybody who distributes the activity; and that includes OLPC, schools,
trials, test teams, Linux distributions like Fedora ... can be confident
that they are doing it legally.

This isn't something that I'm being directed to do, it's just regular
work ... it's a ticket I'm able to solve bugs.sugarlabs.org #1695 and
dev.laptop.org #10011), and the fixes are trivial and easy to explain:

1.  there may exist contributors who would be unwilling to help unless
they are protected from being sued (olpcgames/copying hash 0db3b9c),

2.  the Physics activity as a whole claimed it was licensed under the
GNU GPL but didn't comply with the recommendations from the Free
Software Foundation on how to apply the license ... which just meant
copying the COPYING file and adding it to the source,

3.  the major source files (activity.py, helpers.py, physics.py,
tools.py) had to have clear author and license defined.

That's all it was.  Nothing major.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/