Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-22 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 20 February 2014 09:27:05 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: In searching of a business model... I understand that in case of GCompris content is king. Since it's getting rewritten (minus the resources), at least scripts can be published under any license suits the author, if you ask me, for

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-21 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 21:18:25 Thomas Zander wrote: The beliefs of freedom are not at all hurt by someone taking that FLOSS and packaging it for a fee. There is no incompatibility there. Agreed, and this could be an opportunity to explore what is possible there. Perhaps the way we’ve

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Coudoin
Le 19/02/2014 21:24, David Edmundson a écrit : What I see as a problem is that this has an implicit attached request to our current KDE Windows releasing team saying they shouldn't package and release GCompris. It would be unfair on Bruno for our KDE Windows team to do so. Legally they

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Coudoin
Le 20/02/2014 09:37, Martin Gräßlin a écrit : On Thursday 20 February 2014 09:03:04 Bruno Coudoin wrote: Le 19/02/2014 21:24, David Edmundson a écrit : What I see as a problem is that this has an implicit attached request to our current KDE Windows releasing team saying they shouldn't package

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-19 Thread Agustin benito bethencourt
Hi Bruno, I am Agustín Benito Bethencourt, KDE e.V. Treasurer. It is important to mention that the Windows and MacOSX version are distributed as demo ware. These binaries have only a limited number of activities and the users are invited to buy an activation code through paypal. The

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-19 Thread Agustin
Hi Bruno, I am Agustin Benito, KDE eV Treasurer. Thanks for providing us the information around the income that GConpris generates. We do not have a clear policy about this topic. I do not see a major problem in this area. We have a wide variety of different business models used by KDE

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-02-19, Agustin benito bethencourt aben...@kde.org wrote: I must confess though that I am worry about the association between: * proprietary platforms = commercial * free platforms = non commercial that might be implied from this model. I understood it that it was 'source code is free

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-19 Thread Alvaro Soliverez
There were (and probably still are) KDE apps available in the N9 app store for a fee. So, it's not new, and I don't see any problem with it. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk wrote: On 2014-02-19, Agustin benito bethencourt aben...@kde.org wrote: I must confess

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-19 Thread Thomas Zander
On Wednesday 19. February 2014 12.58.57 Agustin benito bethencourt wrote: I must confess though that I am worry about the association between: * proprietary platforms = commercial * free platforms = non commercial that might be implied from this model. But the business models is a

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-19 Thread Bruno Coudoin
Le 19/02/2014 13:43, Agustin a écrit : Hi Bruno, I am Agustin Benito, KDE eV Treasurer. Thanks for providing us the information around the income that GConpris generates. We do not have a clear policy about this topic. I do not see a major problem in this area. Hi, I have no problem sharing

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-19 Thread Thomas Zander
On Wednesday 19. February 2014 21.24.22 David Edmundson wrote: The open source as well as the free-software movements are about freedom, and I believe KDE supports that as well. The beliefs of freedom are not at all hurt by someone taking that FLOSS and packaging it for a fee. There is

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-16 Thread Kevin Ottens
Hello, On Thursday 13 February 2014 04:48:00 Bruno Coudoin wrote: [...] So this is a brain new project with just a demonstrator of only 4 activities on 140. I think it is a good time frame for GCompris to join the Kde community for different reasons: [...] I hope my request did raise your

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-16 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: decides to go for GPLv3+, and then leaves the project, it is possible that a rewrite would need to happen for the new people getting involved to avoid the limitation of GPLv3 which is not present in GPLv2. This would impose

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-16 Thread Inge Wallin
On Saturday, February 15, 2014 00:03:15 Bruno Coudoin wrote: Le 14/02/2014 14:12, Inge Wallin a écrit : On Friday, February 14, 2014 00:28:38 Bruno Coudoin wrote: Le 13/02/2014 23:17, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit : On Thursday, February 13, 2014 22:54:12 Bruno Coudoin wrote: Anyway another

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-14 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Friday, 2014-02-14, 13:02:31, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Aaron, On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:17:05 +0100 Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: On Friday, February 14, 2014 04:24:12 Shlomi Fish wrote: The VideoLAN / VLC project took the opposite approach and after being unhappy with the

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-14 Thread Inge Wallin
On Friday, February 14, 2014 00:28:38 Bruno Coudoin wrote: Le 13/02/2014 23:17, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit : On Thursday, February 13, 2014 22:54:12 Bruno Coudoin wrote: Anyway another approach is needed here for the new version. Knights, a chess program written with KDE libraries, has an

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-14 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:28:08PM +0100, ivan.cu...@gmail.com wrote: ‎+1 for adding gpl3 to the licensing policy  Please review the proposals I have made and posted in the thread licence policy updates Jonathan ___ kde-community mailing list

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-13 Thread Bruno Coudoin
Le 13/02/2014 22:15, Albert Astals Cid a écrit : Wait, does GCompris require for copyright assignment to the FSF? No it does not. I know that it is a FSF recommendation but we never followed it. In GCompris all the copyright are assigned to their authors. Bruno.