Hello Cort,<div>This is Sebastian Silva from the Sugar project.</div><div>A couple of years ago Rafael Ortiz and I integrated PyAIML into</div><div>"Speak", the robot that ships with Sugar and the +1 million OLPC</div>
<div>computers. After this effort, subsequent versions of Speak have</div><div>carried your program and some brains for Spanish and English.</div><div><br></div><div>We are having a problem with your license and are wondering</div>
<div>if it would be possible to change it?</div><div>I understand your disdain for legalese but I also think you were not</div><div>trying to stop us from distributing it.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for considering this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sebastian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/13 Luke Faraone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lfaraone@debian.org">lfaraone@debian.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
<br>
Previous versions of sugar-speak-activity embedded PyAIML[1], an<br>
Artificial Intelligence Markup Language interpreter. PyAIML suffers from<br>
having a rather unfortunate license[2], which I'll quote below in its<br>
entirety:<br>
<br>
> License Information<br>
><br>
> I hate legalese. This software is free to use and distribute however you'd like. I'm not aware of any catastrophic bugs, but please don't come crying to me if this software fries your board. Void where prohibited. No purchase necessary. You must be 18 or older to make this call. For indoor or outdoor use ONLY. We live for the One, we die for the One.<br>
<br>
After discussion on #debian-devel, I've come to the conclusion that as<br>
of today, the license is non-free. alsroot has stripped PyAIML from the<br>
newest version of Speak, 17[3], and Sebastian Dziallas had developed a<br>
patch he's used in Fedora[4], attached for completeness.<br>
<br>
Therefore, if we package the new upstream version of Speak from the<br>
tarball, and apply the patch to disable PyAIML support, we should have<br>
something working that is legally distributable.<br>
<br>
<br>
[1]: <a href="http://pyaiml.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://pyaiml.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
[2]: <a href="http://pyaiml.sourceforge.net/#license" target="_blank">http://pyaiml.sourceforge.net/#license</a><br>
[3]: <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Speak/speak-17.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Speak/speak-17.tar.gz</a><br>
[4]:<br>
<a href="http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/sugar-speak/devel/sugar-speak-no-aiml.patch" target="_blank">http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/sugar-speak/devel/sugar-speak-no-aiml.patch</a><br>
<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sebastian Silva<br><a href="http://somosazucar.org/">http://somosazucar.org/</a><br>"Te imaginas si te pudieran enseñar sólo a leer pero no a escribir??"<br>
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