On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:20:27PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:16:03PM -0500, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > It sounds like it from the MIT explanation, but, no. The Scratch binary is
> > itself derived from the Squeak image (which is a separate thing from the
> > Squeak VM). In that image, there are classes begining with
"Scratch-", which
> > are the new Scratch code and licensed under the GPL v2. There is also
> > original Squeak code, under a combination of MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses.
> > The question basically comes down to: is distributing that together okay
> > under the GPL v2?
> So everything MIT has written here is what is licensed under GPLv2?
Everything the Scratch team at MIT has written is, yes. The other Squeak
code in the Scratch image is covered under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses
as described at
http://www.squeak.org/SqueakLicense/
I don't see any problem here.
I would note that the MIT code is apparently GPLv2+ rather than GPLv2.
- RF