[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] [Tuxmath-devel] Response from school staff regarding progress tracking

[Caroline Ford]

2009/12/1 Jesus Mager <fongog at gmail.com>

> 2009/12/1 Caroline Ford <caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com>:
> > 2009/12/1 Jesus Mager <fongog at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> > Beyond that, there is a ton of stuff from GSoC that needs to be
> >> > finished or integrated into tuxtype and tuxmath.  The Qt4-based
> >> > tux4kids-admin tool is still in limbo - a lot of work has been done,
> >> > but there's no documentation or license info, no simple "make install"
> >> > target, and no way to make tarball packages.  Also, a lot of work has
> >> > been done to factor out the common code in tuxmath and tuxtype into a
> >> > t4k-common library, but that still isn't packagable.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hi David!
> >>
> >> These last months I really was busy with school, but my vacations will
> >> begin next week. So I will have enough time to finish the
> >> tux4kids-admin. The issue of the license is one thing that we should
> >> solve first. I never noticed this, no mention about license :( My
> >> Fault! I will write Michael to ask him about the used license. (What
> >> about a unique license for all tux4kids code?)
> >
> > Unique licenses are a bad thing. We are under the GPL - a stand alone
> > program _could_ be BSD I suppose but we really don't want a special
> tux4kids
> > free software licence.
> >
> > Caroline
>
> So, can we supose that the code written by Michal is GPL? Or we need a
> spesific autorization to that? And what version of GPL? As far as I
> know, in TuxMath 95% is GPL 2, but my code is actualy under GPL 3.
> Should I use also 2?
>
> Did Michael write this code for us? Where did it come from?

You can't decide single handedly to change the licence of the code! The
project is GPL 2 and needs discussion if we are migrate the entire program
to GPL 3. I don't know if we can mix GPL 2 and GPL 3 and it would certainly
seem to work against the interoperability ethos which underpins free
software.

I'd always licence my code under the licence of the project. With artwork I
provide choices for maximum reuse, but never changing the licence of a piece
of work - ie if it starts out PD regardless of how much time I spend it
stays PD, even if I could relicence under a less free "free content" licence
I don't.

Caroline
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