[IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sugar-devel] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

[Sameer Verma]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <samuel at greenfeld.org> wrote:
> My experience with the SFC is that while they like to do license
> enforcement, they are not platform purists.  If you look at the bottom of
> sfconservancy.org they have their own social media accounts.
>

I completely agree with this. To say that it's all Free Software and
nothing else is a mis-characterization. To take this extreme
fundamentalist viewpoint would imply not being able to use web servers
like Apache (Open Source, but not Free software).

Sameer
-- 
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Professor, Information Systems
San Francisco State University
http://verma.sfsu.edu/

>
> The ".fla" file at least in #4758 actually may be the source code in binary
> format.  I do not have access to a copy of Shockwave to verify that.
> But without knowing the license for the flash content (unless Samson knows
> the source; the README is for a different .fla, and I cannot find it) it is
> unclear if the bundle as a whole can be GPL v3 licensed.
>
> I do not recall having an active ASLO account to check the other activity in
> question.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 13/06/17 12:50, Samson Goddy wrote:
>>
>> Your mentioning Facebook, iPhone, Windows, Flash, LinkedIn etc, do not fit
>> with this agreement, so we would sincerely appreciate if you do not promote
>> these entities while representing Sugar Labs.
>>
>> Could you explain more, because i dont understand. And also how did you
>> think i might breach the agreement?
>>
>>
>> While your promoting these entities does not breach the wording of the
>> agreement, I believe it goes against the spirit of it. Please review
>> information on GNU.org such as the following articles, to understand why
>> such technologies are distributed in bad faith.
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/keep-control-of-your-computing.html
>> https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html
>> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
>>
>> On the other hand, these Sugar Activities (by you) don't have proper
>> sources available. This actually is a breach of the agreement, and they
>> should have been removed:
>>
>>     http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4759
>>     http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4758
>>
>> In accordance to the license file on those .xo bundles, I request that you
>> share the source for the .swf Flash components embedded if you wrote them,
>> otherwise please make sure they are removed from ASLO.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sebastian
>>
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