I believe Oracle GPL'd the code itself, as I remember it was the extension pack & installer that had licensing issues... in any case, topics for the SFC to help with
Sean On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Not only doable, has been done for some time now [1,2] and is > multi-platform > > (& what I use to demo Sugar on a Mac) > > > > The Oracle PUEL license [3] very interestingly permits free > redistribution > > for educational purposes, opening the possibility of a single installer, > > ideal for our needs. > > > > In the past I have suggested approaching Oracle for a marketing > partnership > > under a CSR (corporate social responsibility) banner. > > One issue we bump up against is the stricture to only host FOSS > materials. So if we were to have such a partnership, it may have to > hosted elsewhere. (VMWare has a similar program) > > -walter > > > > > Sean > > > > 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox > > 2. https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/VirtualBox > > 2. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL > > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org> > wrote: > >> > >> At least the virtualbox looks doable and a good way to show Sugar. > >> > >> Gonzalo > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Thursday, 7 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote: > >>>> > >>>> The larger problem is the absence of a marketing strategy, we need to > >>>> know where we are going to communicate effectively. In particular, we > need > >>>> to choose and implement how to offer Sugar tryout to teachers and > >>>> journalists. > >>> > >>> > >>> I can think of a couple of approaches > >>> > >>> * Get Sugar running well on the CuBox-i. Find budget to buy a few of > >>> those to distribute to chosen journalist and teachers. Try to partner > with > >>> SolidRun to offer Sugar as an out-of-the-box installation option. > >>> > >>> * Make it easy to run Sugar inside VirtualBox on Windows and OS X. > >>> Without having investigated too deeply it seems that a two step process > >>> would be both realistically implementable and easy enough for the user > >>> > >>> 1 Install virtualbox > >>> 2 Install a Sugar application (which would take care of setting up the > >>> appliance). > >>> > >>> Thoughts? Other ideas? If we can agree on one or two concrete, > realistic > >>> approaches, I think we can at least attempt to get them done for 3.102. > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Daniel Narvaez > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Marketing mailing list > >>> Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org > >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing > >>> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Marketing mailing list > > Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing > > > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org >
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