Re: The relation with gnomefiles.org

[Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <efgiovanini gmail com>]

Em Sex, 2006-07-14 às 01:13 -0700, Eugenia Loli-Queru escreveu:
> > As I think is mentioned one one of the wiki pages, we need to reuse
> > information somehow, maybe with DOAP. Many people don't use gnomefiles.org
> > because we don't want to enter information in multiple places. I've mostly
> > stopped using freshmeat for the same reasons.
>
> Gnomefiles has special needs for fields. If the DOAP standard can accomodate 
> these (it was originally designed for Freshmeat AFAIK), and if someone help 
> me out with the PHP part of pulling these correctly into the DB, the feature 
> will be added.
>
> > An official GNOME software map must also clearly identify any software in
> > the map that is not free(dom) or open source, which gnomefiles.org doesn't
> > currently do.
>
> As I wrote to the email the marketing-list that hasn't got through yet (I 
> can't seem to be able to register with this list), this is to be fixed. For 
> example, a non-OSS license will be displayed in italics, in red color and 
> maybe a popup window explaining that this is not open source. I am not sure 
> how more clear I can make it without changing the existing DB...
>
> > For instance, "VM Player" is listed, confusingly as
> > "freeware", and "VMware" is listed as "commercial".
>
> Actually both are correct. VMWare is commercial (or was when it was entered 
> in the DB) and VMWare Player is freeware.

"Commercial" is not enough because it doesn't mean non-free. An
application can be free and commercial. 

It's nice that you're going to make it more clear if an application is
free or non-free, looking forward to that. Keep up the good work. :)

Cheers,
Evandro