Re: Non-Free Gnome Software

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

+++ Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 06:25:24PM -0500 +++
Raja R Harinath e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> 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 :-)

You've misunderstood something.

> > 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".

As far as I know, it's even in the Gnome Manifesto that Gnome allows
it and is designed as to making developing commercial Gnome
applications easy (thus the LGPL), while keeping Gnome itself actually
free.

Thus it is right in the spirit of Gnome to have a commercial
application in the Gnome Software Map.

mawa
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