Readability publisher sign-up for *.gnome.org

2011-08-26 Thread Will Thompson
Hi, I've been experimenting with Readability https://www.readability.com for a couple of months. It's a web service that reformats web pages for easier reading, and—if you pay for it—maintains a TODO list of those nicely-formatted pages for later reading. (Sadly, it's not Free.) A unique (AFAIK)

Re: Readability publisher sign-up for *.gnome.org

2011-08-26 Thread Alan Cox
I suspect the most likely sub-domain to be read via Readability is blogs.gnome.org, which would raise the question of whether it's right for the Gnome Foundation to accept the money from people reading Foundation-hosted blog posts. I think it's probably reasonable, but I'm just one person

Re: Readability publisher sign-up for *.gnome.org

2011-08-26 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 08/26/11 20:36, Alan Cox wrote: I suspect the most likely sub-domain to be read via Readability is blogs.gnome.org, which would raise the question of whether it's right for the Gnome Foundation to accept the money from people reading Foundation-hosted blog posts. I think it's probably

Re: Readability publisher sign-up for *.gnome.org

2011-08-26 Thread Alan Cox
I would be surprised if the Gnome Foundation had legal authority and ownership rights to authorise any redesign of such material as it isn't the rightsholder in question. Well, we are reformating and republishing already. How's that different? Just wondering. People asked to have their

Re: Readability publisher sign-up for *.gnome.org

2011-08-26 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 13:45, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: People asked to have their blogs included on it and placed them on it by choice. It's under CC-NC licensing (*). So they've agreed to NC use but the foundation exploiting it commercially (or indeed any site reformatting it

Re: Readability publisher sign-up for *.gnome.org

2011-08-26 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 14:22 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 13:45, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: People asked to have their blogs included on it and placed them on it by choice. It's under CC-NC licensing (*). So they've agreed to NC use but the foundation

Re: Readability publisher sign-up for *.gnome.org

2011-08-26 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 17:57 +0100, Will Thompson wrote: Hi, I've been experimenting with Readability https://www.readability.com for a couple of months. It's a web service that reformats web pages for easier reading, and—if you pay for it—maintains a TODO list of those nicely-formatted

Re: Readability publisher sign-up for *.gnome.org

2011-08-26 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:22:14 -0500 Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 13:45, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: People asked to have their blogs included on it and placed them on it by choice. It's under CC-NC licensing (*). So they've agreed to NC

Re: Readability publisher sign-up for *.gnome.org

2011-08-26 Thread Richard Stallman
We have agreed to an grant a copy of our blogs under no license whatsoever; Does this mean that the GNOME Foundation blogs carry no license to permit even verbatim copying? They ought to. It should be automatic as a condition of publishing on the GNOME blog site. If that wasn't done

Re: Readability publisher sign-up for *.gnome.org

2011-08-26 Thread Richard Stallman
I've been experimenting with Readability https://www.readability.com for a couple of months. It's a web service that reformats web pages for easier reading, That sounds like SaaS. SaaS is bad on basic principles because users lose control of their computing. If there is a better