Creating deb package of MIT's programming environment for kids (Squeak based)

[Tom Hoffman]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Caroline Ford
<caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/12 Andrés Monroy-Hernández <andres.mh at andresmh.com>:
>> Dear edubuntu developers,
>>
>> We are looking for volunteers to help us create a package of the
>> Scratch educational programming environment <http://scratch.mit.edu>
>> for Ubuntu in general and Edubuntu in particular.  The current
>> installers (Win/Mac) come with all the necessary elements needed to
>> run Scratch  (Squeak, some DLLs for Windows) as well as sample
>> projects and an image+sound library. We would like to have the
>> equivalent for Ubuntu.
>>
>
> I see that it's under Creative Commons BY-SA which is fine.

Activities that are uploaded to the Scratch site are considered to be
under a BY-SA license, although that's pretty much just handwaving
from a legal standpoint, particularly since children in the US at
least cannot relicense their own work without parental consent.

More importantly, the license for the "Scratch Source Code" at
http://scratch.mit.edu/pages/source is a non-commercial, thus non-free
non-OSI compliant license, which can't be in Edubuntu.

I'm 99.9% certain they used to have a BSD-style license so maybe you
can get an earlier copy of the image.

Scratch development was primarily funded by an National Science
Foundation grant; in the original proposal they promised to make it an
open source project.  Their implementation in this regard has been a
complete and utter mess, and quite frankly, an insult to the open
source in education community.

--Tom