[squeak-dev] Ubuntu package maintainers help

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Apr 19 14:41:17 UTC 2009


On 19.04.2009, at 16:24, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:

> On Thursday 16 April 2009 3:32:17 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> Squeakland should provide only Mac and Win installers, and work with
>> the distros to carry an up-to-date Etoys package.
> Expecting distros to package and distribute makes sense only for  
> purely FOSS
> projects. Till the licensing questions around Squeak are cleared,
> distributors may not want to carry it in their repos.

There is no licensing problem anymore for the VM, and neither for  
Etoys 4.0.

Even Debian did not object to the licensing anymore - it's in non-free  
because they do not like the idea of purely image-based development.  
Which is one of the reason why I'm only shooting for VM packages for  
now.

> What is the blocker for a proper deb repo on Squeakland?
>
> Has anyone in the oversight board contacted medibuntu-maintainers
> (http://medibuntu.org/)?


I don't think that's the board's job, and secondly medibuntu is for  
software with license issues. So no point as that does not apply to us  
anymore, not to the VM and not to Squeak 4.0 once it is released. I'm  
just saying we should not sit and wait until 4.0 is done, but make the  
distro contacts now, let the VM packages pave the way.

- Bert -




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