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qwertyu63
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Scratch

http://scratch.mit.edu/
I would like it in Portable app form.
I wish you luck. Thank You.

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hmmm

It is hosted on Sourceforge but the license doesn't seem to be GPL or OSS. http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Support/Scratch_License/License

This is puzzling me.

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It seems to be a modified MIT

It seems to be a modified MIT license that requires attribution.

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Non-OSI

Yeah, that's old-style BSD. The attribution requirement runs counter to the open source guidelines, so that license would not be OSI approved. That means that app shouldn't be on SourceForge.

NM, I checked and it isn't SourceForge hosted.

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It looks like they used a

It looks like they used a wiki program that is sponsored by sorceforge to create their web page. thanks for the clarification on th3e license.

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For those that don't know

For those that don't know it's already portable. You only need the launcher for Portable Apps Launcher.

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The licensing seem confusing.

The licensing seem confusing. It say that the software behind Scratch is GPL [http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Terms_of_use] but another license says this:

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Scratch 1.4 Software

Copyright (c) 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.
See http://scratch.mit.edu

The Scratch logo and the Scratch cat are trademarks of MIT.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and accompanying documentation and media files (the "Software") to distribute the Software, including the right to use, copy, publish, or distribute copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the Software.

If the software is published or distributed, the following statement shall be displayed in a visible place on a website or on distribution media such as CDs:

Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.
See http://scratch.mit.edu

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
[http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_License/License]

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I didn't see anywhere where it said open source

when I went to go check it out. I see lots of "available free of charge" references, but no open source. Am I missing something here? I guess now that PortableApps.com is offering freeware it could work, but there are many issues with BSD based licensing options that most aren't aware of.

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