[Building Sakai] [Management] Gradebook Situation

[Carl Hall]

What library is it?  Maybe we could work out some dual licensing or help
find a replacement.


On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Mark Norton <markjnorton at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  > Gradebook 2 includes an indispensable library which is licensed under
> GPL
>
> Well, that was a pretty silly thing to do.  We've managed to steer clear
> of GPL code for the entire lifetime of Sakai (with the possible
> exception of MySQL).  That, at a minimum, needs to be fixed, IMO.
>
> - Mark Norton
>
> Clay Fenlason wrote:
> > We started to talk about the state of various gradebook tools at the
> > Project Coordination meetings in Denver, and some discussion between
> > Kirk, Karen and I has followed since, so an update is in order.  I
> > wanted also to communicate the information more widely and make sure
> > the rest of the community was aware.
> >
> > You can find an overview of the gradebook situation in Confluence [1],
> > where the information will be revised as the situation develops.
> > Questions and comments welcome, though you'll notice we don't have
> > answers to every question yet.
> >
> > Please note in particular the next step planned around 2.8. In
> > mid-August UCDavis and IU are planning to come together to agree on
> > the final details of a common data model, and it's expected that this
> > work (including conversion scripts) could be completed by the
> > projected code freeze in mid-September
> >
> > ~Clay
> >
> > [1] http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/_hIhB
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