Andreas Mantke: > Am Montag, 27. Juni 2011, 19:02:42 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: > > For usability, I'd prefer not to have a default here. Otherwise, people > > may overlook the field and it might well happen that someone uploads an > > extension that gets tagged as "GPL" but actually has (within the OXT > > file) a totally different license. > > I changed the field, in which the contributor choose the license, from drop > down to > radio format. I added also a warning text to the description of the field: > http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1848120/
Thanks Andreas, this is a significant improvement: sloppy authors will now have to be aware of that field. It's unfortunate that something released with the same license as the LibreOffice new files cannot be uploaded properly due to the need to choose only one license, but limitations due to the tools (something that I cannot understand in general) will maybe be overcome in future. Coming to the contents, I have 3 questions about your screenshot: - "Freeware" will block the upload, right? I.e., if someone chooses "Freeware" then the extension submission will be refused. - Why is "Commercial License" in the list? GPL, LGPL and the other options listed are (also) commercial licenses, so it's redundant. - I don't really want to start any discussions about this, but I'm not aware of a large number of extensions distributed under the "Zope Public License" while I would, say, expect that there will be extensions contributed under the Apache License. Of course the Apache License can fit in the category of "Approved by OSI" and "Approved by FSF", but maybe it deserves its own option. If this has already been examined, just ignore it. The first extension I'm going to contribute is under GPLv3 anyway... Regards, Andrea. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
