Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

2010-08-13 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! As all the applications involved are GPL'd Which applications are involved? There are some desktop apps that are LGPL'd or even MIT'd, for which non-free addons could legally be developed. Could you give examples inside the GNOME Desktop release set (not libraries)? Otherwise, we would

Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

2010-08-13 Thread Richard Stallman
Which applications are involved? There are some desktop apps that are LGPL'd or even [X11'd], for which non-free addons could legally be developed. In those cases, nonfree addons would be lawful, but they are still wrong. So we should make sure not to include them in any list.

GNOME Policy on Copyright Assignment

2010-08-13 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Several months ago, the Release Team contacted the GNOME Foundation to know what should be done if a module proposed for inclusion in GNOME requires a copyright assignment. There was no policy for this at that time, so the Board discussed the topic with the Advisory Board and asked Bradley

New GNOME Foundation Members

2010-08-13 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hello everybody! The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to present the new members: * Randal Barlow * Peter Hutterer * Florian Müllner * Garrett Michael LeSage * Djavan

Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

2010-08-13 Thread Jonh Wendell
Em Sex, 2010-08-13 às 14:43 +0200, Tobias Mueller escreveu: Hello everybody! The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to present the new members: * Randal Barlow * Peter Hutterer * Florian Müllner

Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

2010-08-13 Thread Sandy Armstrong
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote: Hi! As all the applications involved are GPL'd Which applications are involved? There are some desktop apps that are LGPL'd or even MIT'd, for which non-free addons could legally be developed. Could you give examples

Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

2010-08-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 06:38 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote: Hi! As all the applications involved are GPL'd Which applications are involved? There are some desktop apps that are LGPL'd or even MIT'd, for which

Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

2010-08-13 Thread Gil Forcada
El dv 13 de 08 de 2010 a les 10:12 -0400, en/na Shaun McCance va escriure: On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 06:38 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote: Hi! As all the applications involved are GPL'd Which applications are

Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

2010-08-13 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 06:38 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: Tomboy is LGPL2. Right, so some developers may choose to license their apps or plugin frameworks liberally to allow proprietary plugins. We don't need a morality

Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

2010-08-13 Thread Sandy Armstrong
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Patryk Zawadzki pat...@pld-linux.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 06:38 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: Tomboy is LGPL2. Right, so some developers may choose to license their apps or plugin

Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

2010-08-13 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Sandy Armstrong sanfordarmstr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Patryk Zawadzki pat...@pld-linux.org wrote: It's not really a question of morality, how would we prevent a user from installing both a GPL and a non-OSI plugin for Tomboy at the

Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

2010-08-13 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! Forgive my ignorance, but isn't that perfectly allowed as long as the user doesn't then distribute the combination? Yeah, that's perfectly OK as Tomboy as LGPL. And for me, Freedom also includes the freedom to use proprietary software if someone wants to. Anyway, a.g.o will obviously only

Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

2010-08-13 Thread Richard Stallman
It's not really a question of morality, how would we prevent a user from installing both a GPL and a non-OSI plugin for Tomboy at the same time? As someone already pointed out, we don't aim to _stop_ users from installing whatever they wish. The question at hand is what we _suggest_