On Sunday 12 July 2009 10:02:09 Edgar Hoffmann wrote:
I may have overlooked something on the mentioned project-site, but it seems that Scratch is not free software (?).
The license for Scratch is http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_License/License - it looks similar to the BSD license. I suspect that the clause requiring attribution in publishing would make the Scratch license incompatible with the GPL, but not necessarily non-free; however IANAL and the SFD discuss list is not the place for that conversation. There is also the Scratch source code license at http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Source_Code which has additional stipulations.
On the about-page is mentioned, that Microsoft, Intel and other closed source companies are involved with the project.
There is no such thing as a "closed source company". There is only free and proprietary software. Both Intel and Microsoft have produced free software - Intel is a contributor to the Linux kernel, for example. Dave -- Dave Page <grimoire@cultofperf.org.uk> Jabber: grimoire@jabber.earth.li