Re: Intellectual Property Plugins and GNOME

["Ronald S. Bultje" <rbultje ronald bitfreak net>]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:26:59 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Here at Sun, we have been talking with Fluendo about licensing these
> plugins.  As you can imagine, it is fairly expensive to acquire a
> license that allows a vendor to freely ship these plugins (as opposed
> to a per-use license).
[..]
> Perhaps Microsoft and Fluendo would find it interesting to work a
> license with the GNOME community

Such a license would violate any of the ideals that we stand for.

Ronald