[Webteam] Notice about the etoys license

[Ken Causey]

Further regarding the current SqueakLicense page:

In my opinion the content on this page should be replaced with the
original 'Squeak License' since I believe there are links to this page
expecting the actual Squeak License (the license by that name, not the
license for a given version of Squeak).

Another page should be created that as succinctly as possible explains
the current license status and secondarily the history and links as
appropriate to seperate pages (either internally or externally) for each
license.  A link could be put prominently on the SqueakLicense page
pointing to this new page if the reader is looking for overall licensing
information.  And any existing links on the site that mean to refer to
license status and not explicitly the 'Squeak License' should be changed
to point to the new page.

Ken

On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 18:16 -0600, Ken Causey wrote:
> I strongly disagree and believe this would further confuse the issue.
> www.squeak.org and ftp.squeak.org represent the project that develops
> and distributes Squeak, but not Squeak Etoys.  Any license information
> should be closely connected to the distribution point for a piece of
> software and vice versa.  We do not distribute Squeak Etoys, why should
> we be maintaining licensing information for that piece of software?
> 
> Ken
> 
> On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 16:51 -0700, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
> > There is ongoing discussion about including etoys in debian,
> > fedora, and ubuntu. Several people have looked at
> > 
> > http://squeak.org/SqueakLicense/
> > 
> > and are confused, as that license is not the MIT/Apache license
> > that we are advertising etoys to be available under. For the
> > latest discussion, see the emails with the subject "Sugar in
> > Edubuntu":
> > 
> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2008-November/thread.html
> > 
> > I would like to add the following notice to the top of the page:
> > 
> > 
> > Notice regarding Etoys
> > 
> > Etoys 4, a product derived from Squeak and distributed
> > with Sugar<http://sugarlabs.org> and the One Laptop Per
> > Child<http://laptop.org>, is no longer distributed under the
> > license listed on this page. Its licensing terms are described
> > at Viewpoints Research Institute<http://www.vpri.org/vp_wiki>,
> > the copyright holder for Squeak and Etoys
> > 
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