Re: GNOME Roadmap
- From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
- To: David Sugar <dyfet ostel com>
- Cc: foundation-list gnome org, Ronald Bultje <rbultje ronald bitfreak net>, Dave Camp <dave ximian com>
- Subject: Re: GNOME Roadmap
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:35:50 -0400
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:31:23PM -0400, David Sugar wrote:
> I have also read that section. I am not trying to provoke an argument or even
> to elaborate on my own views, but I am simply asking, for clarification, on
> why it was considered "important" to enable others (ISV's, whomever) to be
> able to create commercially redistributable proprietary software. Is this
> expressly in reference to media frameworks, or is it implied for the whole of
> GNOME?
This was always considered a key part of the evaluation when integrating
a library in the desktop platform. I can't remember this rule being formally
written down, but it certainly appears in mailing list archives.
Note that this only applies to the platform libraries, pure GPL apps are fine.
Daniel
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