Re: [gDesklets] About Desklets in gDesklets

[Lauri Kainulainen <lauri sokkelo net>]

Bjoern Koch wrote:
> > I agree. I'm thinking about a license entry on the site. Of course the
> > problem still remains, that the licenses of the older desklets are unknown.
>
> I have been browsing through *all* the desklets yesterday to fill in
> some information text to each on the website. And there are a few
> desklets (but less than 10% I guess) which state their license (mainly
> GPL) in the display or an included README file. Furthermore some of them
> have an email address included so me might simply "ask" the author ;).
> Might be worth looking further into it. If you are *REALLY* interested
> in these data I might build a list (which will take a few hours to build)...

Once the license field works we can just directly add those values to 
the site. Every developer can just select his desklets and change the 
licenses. And IIRC I did give out the account details for the legacy 
user, so anyone who has time to fill out the licenses can do so for 
legacy desklets.

I'll just use "undefined" or something as the default license value for 
desklets that are already there. Of course licenses are mandatory after 
this. I'd like to have a drop-down-menu for selecting the license since 
we don't want to allow a free entry (someone making up their licenses, 
etc.). So could you people recommend a list of licenses?

what do we need?

- GPL
- GPL v2 (do we need this? why?)
- Apache (?)
- BSD
- Non-Free(?)

?!?

Or is it actually more of a GPL or not (checkbox) question? Any 
developers who won't use GPL?


- Lauri
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