Here's the Franklin Street statement: http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/
<http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/> * Developers* of network service software are encouraged to: - Use the GNU Affero GPL<http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html>, a license designed specifically for network service software, to ensure that users of services have the ability to examine the source or implement their own service. - Develop freely-licensed alternatives to existing popular but non-Free network services. - Develop software that can replace centralized services and data storage with distributed software and data deployment, giving control back to users. *Service providers* are encouraged to: - Choose Free Software for their service. - Release customizations to their software under a Free Software license. - Make data and works of authorship available to their service’s users under legal terms and in formats that enable the users to move and use their data outside of the service. This means: - Users should control their private data. - Data available to all users of the service should be available under terms approved for Free Cultural Works<http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses> or Open Knowledge <http://opendefinition.org/licenses>. <http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/>I think Tomboy follows its principles pretty closely. Paul, can you comment? Stormy On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Paul Cutler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Zonker, > > For the Tomboy Online alpha: > > 1. Alpha signups are starting today. The form to sign up is at > > https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFZleG05V196b3g4VUFSTHhzcTRFMmc6MQ > > 2. The alpha is invite only and we will be reviewing the list over the > next week or so. Tomboy Online will be available for alpha users > sometime in the next week or two, we have a bug to fix first. > > 3. This is alpha quality software and we are not making any guarantees > about data integrity nor do we have a privacy policy in place yet. More > in the FAQ here: http://live.gnome.org/Snowy/FAQ > > 4. We don't know how long the alpha will last yet prior to launching the > beta. Our goal is to launch the beta in 6 months with GNOME 3.0. > > 5. Tomboy Online is GNOME's first AGPL web service, and as you point > out, a great tie-in for SFD. > > Let me know if you need any more information. > > Paul > > > > From: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <[email protected]> > > Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:34 PM > > Subject: Re: Software Freedom Day > > To: Stormy Peters <[email protected]> > > Cc: Paul Cutler <[email protected]>, marketing-list < > [email protected]> > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Stormy Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier < > [email protected]> > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Hey Stormy, > > >> > > >> I think the online alpha is way more newsworthy than saying "some > > >> GNOME developers are taking part in this larger thing." > > >> > > >> We can tie it into SFD by saying GNOME is looking ahead to the next > > >> generations of services for software freedom, and then mention the > > >> other. > > > > > > Sounds good to me. > > > What do you need from me or the Tomboy Online team? > > > > Just the relevant details for the launch, how to sign up, etc. > > > > Best, > > > > Z > > -- > > Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <[email protected]> > > About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ > > >
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