[Debian-olpc-devel] sugar-speak-activity and licensing of PyAIML

[Luke Faraone]

Hi all,


Previous versions of sugar-speak-activity embedded PyAIML[1], an
Artificial Intelligence Markup Language interpreter. PyAIML suffers from
having a rather unfortunate license[2], which I'll quote below in its
entirety:

> License Information
> 
> I hate legalese. This software is free to use and distribute however you'd like. I'm not aware of any catastrophic bugs, but please don't come crying to me if this software fries your board. Void where prohibited. No purchase necessary. You must be 18 or older to make this call. For indoor or outdoor use ONLY. We live for the One, we die for the One.

After discussion on #debian-devel, I've come to the conclusion that as
of today, the license is non-free. alsroot has stripped PyAIML from the
newest version of Speak, 17[3], and Sebastian Dziallas had developed a
patch he's used in Fedora[4], attached for completeness.

Therefore, if we package the new upstream version of Speak from the
tarball, and apply the patch to disable PyAIML support, we should have
something working that is legally distributable.


[1]: http://pyaiml.sourceforge.net/
[2]: http://pyaiml.sourceforge.net/#license
[3]: http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Speak/speak-17.tar.gz
[4]:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/sugar-speak/devel/sugar-speak-no-aiml.patch


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