Re: Intellectual Property Plugins and GNOME

2006-06-16 Thread Brian Cameron
Perhaps Microsoft and Fluendo would find it interesting to work a license with the GNOME community Such a license would violate any of the ideals that we stand for. Ronald is correct, it would violate the Free as in Freedom. However, you should be taking this to the distributions

Re: Intellectual Property Plugins and GNOME

2006-06-16 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:43:49PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:26:59 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Here at Sun, we have been talking with Fluendo about licensing these plugins. As you can imagine, it is fairly expensive to acquire a license that allows a

Re: Intellectual Property Plugins and GNOME

2006-06-16 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:43 -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:26:59 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Here at Sun, we have been talking with Fluendo about licensing these plugins. As you can imagine, it is fairly expensive to acquire a license that allows a vendor to freely

Re: Intellectual Property Plugins and GNOME

2006-06-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Brian Cameron I just found it interesting that Fluendo seemed agreeable to the idea that the GNOME community in general could work together to purchase a single license for all users. If there were enough interest to do something like this, it would make the GNOME user experience

Gnome 2.14 default logoff dialog and diskmounter-applet

2006-06-16 Thread Rousseau de Pantalon
Dear Gnome Developers, I experience the 2.14 logoff-dialog as a step back in userfriendlyness versus the 2.10/12 version. End-users hate decisions. In 2.10/12 a selection had to be made but once a decision was made this selection was rememberd. Replacing the radio-buttons with normal

Re: Intellectual Property Plugins and GNOME

2006-06-16 Thread Chris Ball
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Also, it seems supporting popular IP multimedia codecs would likely make free software more popular rather than less. Since the license must be renewed each year, such an arrangement could be terminated in the future if