Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee Supporting GNOME on Ubuntu

[Fabien Cortina <freongrr gmail com>]

It's honorable to want your code to stay unaltered, but wouldn't it make more sense to split revenue?

Canonical is on the Advisory Board as well, and any help they receive would contribute Gnome as well.

If the Amazon store is disabled by default, most users won't even know it's there and won't try to enable it. Gnome might get even less this way than if splitting revenue.

Le 16 févr. 2011 à 01:23, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com> a écrit :

> Hey everybody,
> 
> We have been proud to support GNOME by sending 100% of our FOSS Amazon MP3 store's affiliate revenue to the Foundation.  We're already on pace to contribute at the same level as a small company on the Advisory Board, $10,000 USD per year, and revenue is increasing every month.
> 
> After choosing Banshee as the next default player in Ubuntu, Canonical approached us, concerned with how our Amazon store would affect their Ubuntu One store.  They proposed two options:
> 1) Canonical disables the Amazon store by default (you could enable it in a few easy steps) but leaves the affiliate code alone (100% still to GNOME), or
> 2) Canonical leaves the Amazon store enabled, but changes the affiliate code and takes a 75% cut.
> 
> We are pleased that Canonical is willing to leave the affiliate code unaltered.
> 
> As maintainers of the Banshee project, we have opted unanimously to decline Canonical's revenue sharing proposal, so that our users who choose the Amazon store will continue supporting GNOME to the fullest extent.  The GNOME Foundation's Board of Directors supports this decision.
> 
> The Banshee Maintainer Team
> Aaron Bockover, Alexander Kojevnikov, Bertrand Lorentz, Gabriel Burt
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