On May 1, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Colin A. Smith wrote: > On May 1, 2012, at 18:09, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > >> On May 1, 2012, at 03:58, Colin A. Smith wrote: >> >>> 1) The person who handles the releases would need to purchase their own >>> individual Mac Developer membership, create a private key, obtain a signing >>> certificate from Apple, and then use both the private key and signing >>> certificate to sign BibDesk for releases. >> >> Does the cert expire every year, or would it be good for a longer time? I'm >> reluctant to cough up $100 every year to Apple for my software projects >> (which are already a resource sink). > > I don't have a Mac Developer program membership, so don't know for sure. My > experience with the iOS Developer program makes me think you would. If > BibDesk could be made App Store ready, one solution could be for the release > person to have a "fundraising drive" each year where they charge $0.99 for > the first 143 ($99/$0.99/70%) copies of BibDesk, which would be enough to > cover their developer program membership. >>> If someone does get their own Mac Developer program membership, then they >>> could also submit BibDesk to the Mac App store >>
There must be someone out there who would get the developer membership anyhow? That person could do the builds. I think that we shouldn't charge for BibDesk, and that PayPal or something else could be used for people to donate. That might pay the person who was going to become a member anyhow. I would prefer that if possible, BibDesk never be distributed via the Mac App store. I don't think this is really compatible, in spirit, with the idea of Free Software as in Freedom. Someone should not have to check in somewhere to download the software. I am probably more extreme on this than some people, but distribution through the Mac App store seems a little bit like being assimilated into the Borg. Also, there may be sometime down the line when we want to do something that Apple doesn't want, and so have to go in a direction we don't want to go in, in order to be included in the store. ------------------ Adam M. Goldstein PhD, MSLIS -- [email protected] http://www.shiftingbalance.org http://www.twitter.com/shiftingbalance -- http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=180621 -- Associate Editor Reviews Editor Evolution: Education & Outreach http://www.springer.com/life+sci/journal/12052 -- Spellman 205 (914) 637-2717 (msg) -- Dept of Philosophy Iona College 715 North Avenue New Rochelle NY 10801 http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
