Hi, Miriam.
Yes, the plugins are under the MIT open source license, and I believe Squeak is
under an Linux-friendly open source license (can't remember which).
The rest of the Scratch source -- the part written in Smalltalk -- is under the
Scratch license which, as you say, is a barrier to distribution on some
repositories.
-- John
On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to package the Squeak plugins needed for Scratch and
> derivatives on Linux [1], for Debian. AFAIK, those plugins are
> distributed under a MIT license [2], but I want to make sure of that
> before uploading anything to the archive. Could you possibly confirm
> that the code available at [3] is distributed under the license shown
> in [2]?
>
> I'm asking because it seems that Scratch itself doesn't comply with
> the DFSG [4], and thus cannot be distributed in Debian's main archive
> [5].
>
> Lots of thanks,
> Miry
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/637835
> [2] http://my-svn.assembla.com/svn/scratchonlinux/trunk/scratch/license.txt
> [3] http://my-svn.assembla.com/svn/scratchonlinux/trunk/scratch/src/plugins/
> [4] http://www.debian.org/social_contract
> [5] http://bugs.debian.org/471927
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