Re: Non-Free Gnome Software

[Cody Russell <bratsche dfw net>]

Maintaining two seperate lists is a stupid idea. I can understand not
wanting to have it on www.gnome.org; as Miguel just pointed out to me on
irc, it's not GNOME's job to advertise all the software that runs in it.
It would, however, be convenient to have a single source for GNOME
software in the future, when more commercial GNOME software becomes
available. Terral offered me a site (off of gnome.org) to setup a new
software map that could list commercial GNOME-compliant software. At this
point, there's not enough of it to warrant such a site, but once there is
I'll gladly volunteer to set it up.

If anybody has any suggestions for other GNOME-related information that
could be posted on such a site that really isn't appropriate for keeping
on gnome.org, let me know.

Cody

On 27 Jul 1999, Raja R Harinath wrote:

> 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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