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

> == 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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