Hi Sugar folks, [cutting off a few recipients I knwo is subscribed to lists]
On 11-04-26 at 12:57pm, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 10:26 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > > > useless because children can install absolutely no additional > > > software packages (they can't do "yum install"). > > > > Um - again you _can_ install sw in your homedir. Not as practical > > but possible. > > It would be quite painful for users. Correct. Due to design of XO hardware, not licensing of Sugar software. [snip] > The GPL (both v2 and v3) requires that users be given the full source > code in its *preferred* form for making modifications to it. The GPLv3 > additionally requires that users be given the means to install and run > modified versions. Quoting the license directly: > > “Installation Information” for a User Product means any methods, > procedures, authorization keys, or other information required to > install and execute modified versions of a covered work in that User > Product from a modified version of its Corresponding Source. The > information must suffice to ensure that the continued functioning of > the modified object code is in no case prevented or interfered with > solely because modification has been made. > > My feeling is that, in order to be in compliance, deployments would > have to provide detailed instructions for installing Sugar in the > user's home... or simply give them root access. > > Note that Sugar updating its license would simply add yet another > violation to the existing ones: there are currently between 40 and 60 > packages covered by the GPLv3 in a typical OLPC OS image, and the > number is going to increase further when we switch to Fedora 14. ...but it is _Sugar_, not the XO hardware, that is GPL licensed. So how about this "detailed" instruction: 1) Buy a non-locked computer 2) Copy everything over to that other machine 3) Exercise all your rights there Et voilá, GPLv3 not violated. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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