Re: Non-Free Gnome Software

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Cody Russell <bratsche@dfw.net> writes:
> There's nothing wrong with a piece of commercial software being listed on
> the GNOME software map, in my opinion, so long as it is actually a GNOME
> application, and not a GTK+ app.

No way.  www.gnome.org and the GNOME software map are meant for *free*
software.  Please don't contaminate :-)
 
> If GNOME commerical apps start to become more common, it might be nice to
> see another field added to the map to list whether it's free or not.

We should rather banish such apps to a separate list, appropriately
marked "non-free".

- Hari
 
> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jeremy Morgan wrote:
> 
> > It is my understanding that GNOMEs purpose is to provide a desktop composed of free software.  Today I checked out the
> > recent version of IglooFTP (IglooFTP-PRO .9) after I saw its entry updated in the GNOME Software Map.  To my suprise, I
> > found that this software is *commercial*--requiring registration if used after 30 days.  
> > 
> > Now I may be wrong in my argument, but I don't believe that this piece of software should be listed in the GNOME
> > Software Map if GNOMEs aim is to supply free software.  
> > 
> > Is the Software Map an index of GNOME software or just an index of GTK
> > software? 
> > 
> > If it is the latter, and this product has somehow slipped in GNOME, it should be promptly removed and any other
> > commercial software, if it exists, should see the same consequence.
> > 
> > 
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