On 03/07/2012 09:50 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Luca Ferroni]What do you think about my proposal of writing a letter to MIT for freeing Scratch? Would debian-edu sign it?Well, Debian Edu is not a well defined hierarchical organization, so it would be a bit unclear who should sign it on Debian Edus behalf. But I can say that I would sign such letter as the chair of the SLX Debian Labs foundation, which is the Norwegian foundation protecting the assets of the Skolelinux / Debian Edu project. I suspect we could get Knut Yrvin, the leader of the Norwegian FRiSK member organization organizing developer gatherings to sign it too.
Ok thank you both. I don't think that we need formal signs. I just think that we can say: " a bunch of groups in the free software community ask for Scratch to be free software (as in freedom): [here goes informal mailing-lists...] if you free that software you have the followingo opportunity: * include Scratch in Debian-Edu and Dossier Scuola and other free distributions * avoid free software compliant developers to waste their time in wondering if Scratch is acceptable or not * give some visibility to you, for your action toward freedom. " The choice will be up to them of course. Before we write to them we should ask for FSF support to suggest them the best license to use to proctect themselves from their fears... Help me in gather as many group as you can gather easily. Could we gather them in a wiki? We can use our own wiki or your own or a public etherpad. Any suggestion? Or do you think it is better to write a public petition? I prefer the informal mail approach. ...going to write FSF asap Thanks Luca -- Luca Ferroni http://www.lucaferroni.it Tel: +39 328 9639660 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaferroni