#4417 HIGH Future : build source code bundle and store it on the school server

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#4417: build source code bundle and store it on the school server
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   Reporter:  walter         |       Owner:  dgilmore                 
       Type:  task           |      Status:  new                      
   Priority:  high           |   Milestone:  Future Release           
  Component:  school server  |     Version:                           
 Resolution:                 |    Keywords:  gpl content blocks?:8.2.0
Next_action:  never set      |    Verified:  0                        
  Blockedby:                 |    Blocking:                           
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Comment(by gnu):

 Sample text for a piece of paper:

 Your XO laptop includes many different pieces of software, written by
 thousands of people from all over the world.  Most or all of this software
 is "free software".  This means that even though the software is
 copyrighted, its authors have given you many rights.  You are free to run
 the software for any purpose, free to study it and improve it, free to
 give away or sell copies of the software to anyone, and free to give away
 or sell improved versions of each program.

 Many of these free programs use a GNU General Public License to grant
 these rights.  Under those licenses, if you want a copy of the software's
 source code that you can use to study, improve, or share the software, you
 can get a copy by looking on your school server, or on the Internet at
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Source_code or by writing to:

   One Laptop Per Child
    P.O. Box 425087
   Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
    United States of America
   telephone: +1 617 452 5663
    email: help @ laptop.org

 (TRAC formats the above badly, but make it nice on the paper.  In
 particular, it won't let me put "help at laptop.org" (help at laptop dot org)
 into this bug report.  Anti-spam fanatics are censoring every email
 address that is typed into a bug report!)
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 (end of text for paper accompanying laptop)

 The reason the text could not be more specific about all the software
 being free, etc, is because each country will modify the software and may
 throw in things like Adobe Flash that are NOT free.  And code in the
 release uses at least three different GNU General Public Licenses (GPLv2,
 GPLv3, and LGPLv2), which is why I referred to "licenses" in the plural.

 Unfortunately the rights involved in the whole distribution are such a
 tangle that the kids will be unable to figure out which parts of the
 software are covered by which licenses, even if they can read the legalese
 licenses, unless they can also understand "rpm" and find the olpc-license
 files, and understand hierarchical filesystems and how XO Activities are
 packaged.  But we keep inching toward making it easier.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4417#comment:13>
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