On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Caroline Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/12 Andrés Monroy-Hernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Dear edubuntu developers, >> >> We are looking for volunteers to help us create a package of the >> Scratch educational programming environment <http://scratch.mit.edu> >> for Ubuntu in general and Edubuntu in particular. The current >> installers (Win/Mac) come with all the necessary elements needed to >> run Scratch (Squeak, some DLLs for Windows) as well as sample >> projects and an image+sound library. We would like to have the >> equivalent for Ubuntu. >> > > I see that it's under Creative Commons BY-SA which is fine.
Activities that are uploaded to the Scratch site are considered to be under a BY-SA license, although that's pretty much just handwaving from a legal standpoint, particularly since children in the US at least cannot relicense their own work without parental consent. More importantly, the license for the "Scratch Source Code" at http://scratch.mit.edu/pages/source is a non-commercial, thus non-free non-OSI compliant license, which can't be in Edubuntu. I'm 99.9% certain they used to have a BSD-style license so maybe you can get an earlier copy of the image. Scratch development was primarily funded by an National Science Foundation grant; in the original proposal they promised to make it an open source project. Their implementation in this regard has been a complete and utter mess, and quite frankly, an insult to the open source in education community. --Tom -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
