<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:41 PM, C. Scott Ananian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cscott@laptop.org">cscott@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">John Gilmore has been pushing us to get our licensing ducks in a row.<br>The one remaining problem has been activities and content bundles: we<br> can't legally distribute bundles that don't have a clear statement of<br>license.<br><br>I have added documentation to:<br> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles#.info_File_Format" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles#.info_File_Format</a><br> and<br> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sample_library.info_file" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sample_library.info_file</a><br>on a new 'license=' field in the <a href="http://activity.info/" target="_blank">activity.info</a> and <a href="http://library.info/" target="_blank">library.info</a> files,<br> closely modelled after the License: field in RPM packages.<br><br>Now I need your help!  Could you all look at any activity and content<br>bundles you maintain, add an appropriate license statement if there<br>isn't one already (comments at the top of source files, or a COPYING<br> file, or a statement in the README, etc) and the add a 'license='<br>field to your <a href="http://activity.info/" target="_blank">activity.info</a> or <a href="http://library.info/" target="_blank">library.info</a> documenting the license<br> choice?<br><br>Commenting on <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8411" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8411</a> when you've done so<br>will help me keep track of how we're doing.  We will not be able to<br> ship any activities in our G1G1 8.2 image which do not have<br>appropriate license information -- since mstone's plan-of-the-moment<br>is to make the first release candidate for this next week, the<br>situation is pretty urgent.  Also, we will probably need to remove any<br> activity bundles hosted on the <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/" target="_blank">dev.laptop.org</a> wiki which do not have<br>statements of license at one point.  Your help is appreciated!</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>Wouldn't Morgan and his recent survey of activity authors be a valuable resource to quickly and directly get in touch with as many activity authors as possible?</div> <div> </div> <div>Christoph</div> <div> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span id=""></span><br><br>Thanks!<br> --scott<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br> ( <a href="http://cscott.net/" target="_blank">http://cscott.net/</a> )<br> _______________________________________________<br>Sugar mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Sugar@lists.laptop.org">Sugar@lists.laptop.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar</a><br> </font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br> </div>