<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Team,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Is there a "preferred" open
source license for our scripting contributions? I see that Ixo (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ixo/Script)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">chose CC-BY-SA-NC which is not very
compatible with GPL and surprised it to be used in this manner. I
normally associate</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Creative Commons with creating content,
photography, music, and so on, not open source code. It would seem
that any script</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">under CC-BY-SA-NC can't be pre-installed
on any XO laptop sold by OLPC, it would always have to be installed individually
afterwards.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I thought of this today when I heard
about the problems over at the OpenSolaris community:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://www.ratliff.net/blog/index.php/2008/02/14/not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Having lived through the IBM/SCO lawsuit
debacle, I want to make sure we are doing something everyone can agree
to. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I suggest GPL v3 unless someone else
has a better suggestion, which would allow scripts we develop to be incorporated</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">into future XO or XS machines sold by
OLPC.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks<br>
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<td><font size=1 color=#0060a0 face="Microsoft Sans Serif"><b>Tony Pearson</b></font><font size=1 face="Microsoft Sans Serif"><br>
Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™<br>
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