[squeak-dev] NuScratch alpha release

jannik laval jannik.laval at gmail.com
Sun Jan 19 19:35:18 UTC 2014


Phratch is under Scratch Source Code
License<http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_Source_Code_Licensed_Code>
It is not possible to upload project.

Jannik


2014/1/19 Jecel Assumpcao Jr. <jecel at merlintec.com>

> One issue that is missing from this discussion is licenses. The Scratch
> 1.4 source code is available under two licenses, as explained here:
>
> http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Source_Code
>
> In addition, the Scratch trademark imposes additional restrictions even
> if you select the GPL 2 option. A very important part of the Scratch
> ecosystem is the ability to upload projects to:
>
> http://scratch.mit.edu/
>
> There are already 4.5 million projects there and they can be played
> using a Java based viewer, downloaded to be used in the Squeak based
> Scratch 1.4 or in the Flash based Scratch 2.0. So how you can exchange
> projects with other versions is a very, very big deal for the MIT group.
> I added a small feature for a client (support for special hardware) and
> had to use the Scratch Licensed version which can't upload to the site
> (and the client had to use a different name and say it is "based on
> Scratch" instead of "is Scratch"). The reason for this is clear: if my
> client uploaded projects to the site they wouldn't work when downloaded
> by other Scratch users.
>
> Do Phratch and NuScratch use the same license? If not, this shouldn't be
> hard to fix if they were to be merged. But for just sharing code it
> doesn't matter.
>
> -- Jecel
>
>
>


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~~Jannik Laval~~
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