Ah I missed this - excellent, Etoys under free license, thanks for the work of all involved! I will play with it today, and test more after I get back (in a week).
Milan
On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
(resent with new download URLs and a bit more prose)
Hi folks,
this is the first release of Etoys 4.0. The major version jump signifies the end of our two-year relicensing effort.
Originally released in 1996, Apple relicensed the Squeak core under the Apache 2.0 license in October 2006 - thanks to Steve, Alan, and the lawyers involved. Then, Viewpoints Research collected written relicensing agreements from several hundred later contributors under the MIT license - thanks to Kim, and the Squeak community volunteers. Finally, all the code in Etoys not explicitly covered by a relicensing agreement was removed, or rewritten, or reverted to an earlier version
- kudos to Yoshiki for the bulk of that work.
Looking forward to see Etoys properly packaged in more distros now :)
We may have broken stuff while removing and rewriting, so please report any oddities you notice.
Note: Etoys comes in two parts, one is the base (in Sugar Glucose, but will actually run on all platforms given a recent Squeak virtual machine) and one the activity bundle (in Fructose). Following the naming conventions the lower-case "etoys" package is the base while the activity is capitalized as "Etoys".
== Sources ==
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.0.2201. tar.gz
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-97.tar.g z
== Packaged ==
http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/etoys-4.0.2201-1.noarch.rpm
http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/Etoys-97.xo
== News ==
- removed/reverted/rewrote all methods not covered by Apache/MIT license
- various fixes (#8928, #8929, #8879, #9058, and others)
- Bert (for the Etoys team) -
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