Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-08 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Italo Vignoli schrieb: Freeware is usually proprietary but free of charge, and belongs to the same category of shareware (in relations with the software license, as it usually adopts an EULA similar to MS Office or IBM Symphony). So it is, and that's nothing we can accept on the repository.

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-08 Thread C. Olofson
On 07/08/2011 12:50 AM, Rainer Bielefeld wrote: Italo Vignoli schrieb: Freeware is usually proprietary but free of charge, and belongs to the same category of shareware (in relations with the software license, as it usually adopts an EULA similar to MS Office or IBM Symphony). So it is, and

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-07 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 7/4/11 8:07 PM, Rainer Bielefeld wrote: I am not happy with a solution excluding providers of Freeware / Public domain. It's not our strategy to contribute freeware, but if a contributer wants to share his creation without licensing, but as Public Domian, we should not affront him. We

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-07 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Italo Vignoli schrieb: We should incentivate licensing of extensions. Full ACK, if LGPL and CC-BY are included. Kind regards Rainer -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List

[libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-07 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Italo Le 2011-07-07 05:08, Italo Vignoli a écrit : We should incentivate licensing of extensions. I am not sure what this means. Does this mean that Freeware authors would be give a nudge (light push) to agree to (as Rainer suggests) LGPL and CC-BY licenses? And not allow them to list as

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-07 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Marc, *, Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011, 16:54:29 schrieb Marc Paré: Le 2011-06-22 14:59, Andreas Mantke a écrit : Hi Marc, Rainer, *, Am Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011, 14:55:02 schrieb Marc Paré: Le 2011-06-22 06:04, Rainer Bielefeld a écrit : Marc Paré schrieb: Is this to be run along

[libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-07 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-07-07 12:06, Italo Vignoli a écrit : On 7/7/11 4:41 PM, Marc Paré wrote: I am not sure what this means. Does this mean that Freeware authors would be give a nudge (light push) to agree to (as Rainer suggests) LGPL and CC-BY licenses? And not allow them to list as Freeware? I would

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-07 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, and I believe I have been a little careless using term freeware. I do not want a platform for free of charges software, but for really free software, what means with free software license. Rainer -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Charles-H. Schulz wrote: 2011/7/3 Andreas Mantke ma...@gmx.de GPL|GPL - GNU General Public License| http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/ LGPL|LGPL - GNU Lesser General Public License| http://creativecommons.org/licenses/LGPL/2.1/ BSD|BSD License

[libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-04 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Andrea Le 2011-07-04 02:46, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : Charles-H. Schulz wrote: 2011/7/3 Andreas Mantkema...@gmx.de GPL|GPL - GNU General Public License| http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/ LGPL|LGPL - GNU Lesser General Public License| http://creativecommons.org/licenses/LGPL/2.1/

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-04 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 7/4/11 8:46 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: No, I think Freeware (besides the typo in the corresponding link) must be removed, since it goes against the stated policy (or to the closest thing we have, i.e., RMS's statement on the website). IANAL, but freeware is not a license, while we should

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-04 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Italo, Marc, Andrea, *, Am Montag, 4. Juli 2011, 11:43:37 schrieb Italo Vignoli: On 7/4/11 8:46 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: No, I think Freeware (besides the typo in the corresponding link) must be removed, since it goes against the stated policy (or to the closest thing we have, i.e.,

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-04 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Italo Vignoli schrieb: IANAL, but freeware is not a license, while we should only list extensions with a free software license. People using a proprietary license are - of course - free to use such a license, but we cannot neither suggest nor promote their extensions on TDF web sites. Hello,

[libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-03 Thread Olivier R.
Hello, Andreas Mantke wrote: I changed the field, in which the contributor choose the license, from drop down to radio format. I added also a warning text to the description of the field: http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1848120/ A multi-choices list would be better. Some

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-03 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Olivier, *, Am Sonntag, 3. Juli 2011, 12:37:13 schrieb Olivier R.: Hello, Andreas Mantke wrote: I changed the field, in which the contributor choose the license, from drop down to radio format. I added also a warning text to the description of the field:

[libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-07-03 08:45, Andreas Mantke a écrit : Hi Andrea, *, Am Sonntag, 3. Juli 2011, 14:13:56 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Andreas Mantke: Am Montag, 27. Juni 2011, 19:02:42 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: For usability, I'd prefer not to have a default here. Otherwise, people may overlook the field

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-03 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Marc, *, Am Sonntag, 3. Juli 2011, 16:57:32 schrieb Marc Paré: (...) Suggestion: Could we order the list in the preference that we would prefer? If some submitters are unsure of the licence they may then adopt the licence listed at the top of this list. We could then have the least

RE : Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Andreas, I think indeed the SC is rather unsure whether we should allow proprietary extensions. Could you please disable this option at least for the moment? Thank you, Charles. Le 3 juil. 2011, 5:41 PM, Andreas Mantke ma...@gmx.de a écrit : Hi Marc, *, Am Sonntag, 3. Juli 2011, 16:57:32

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Andreas, 2011/7/3 Andreas Mantke ma...@gmx.de Hi Charles, *, Am Sonntag, 3. Juli 2011, 18:24:37 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: Andreas, I think indeed the SC is rather unsure whether we should allow proprietary extensions. Could you please disable this option at least for the

[libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-07-03 11:40, Andreas Mantke a écrit : Hi Marc, *, Am Sonntag, 3. Juli 2011, 16:57:32 schrieb Marc Paré: (...) Suggestion: Could we order the list in the preference that we would prefer? If some submitters are unsure of the licence they may then adopt the licence listed at the top of

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-03 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 7/3/11 11:01 PM, Marc Paré wrote: I would vote not to reposit (if that is indeed a word) proprietary extensions and templates etc. Let's keep everything as open as possible. We can list proprietary extensions perhaps on a separate page. This would still offer our users a full complement of

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-03 Thread C. Olofson
On 07/03/2011 02:40 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote: On 7/3/11 11:01 PM, Marc Paré wrote: I would vote not to reposit (if that is indeed a word) proprietary extensions and templates etc. Let's keep everything as open as possible. We can list proprietary extensions perhaps on a separate page. This

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-03 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 7/4/11 12:09 AM, C. Olofson wrote: The reason I say this is that non-free software is not anathema to F/OSS. Of course not, but I would be very careful because we can alienate FSF and other TDF supporters. -- Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com mobile +39.348.5653829 VoIP

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

2011-07-03 Thread Craig Olofson
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.comwrote: On 7/4/11 12:09 AM, C. Olofson wrote: The reason I say this is that non-free software is not anathema to F/OSS. Of course not, but I would be very careful because we can alienate FSF and other TDF supporters. By