[Fedora-legal-list] Fwd: Re: [Scratch] scratch gpl licensing -- combining with apache, and gpl v3

[Richard Fontana]

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