Re: The relation with gnomefiles.org

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli hotmail com>]

> As I think is mentioned one one of the wiki pages, we need to reuse
> information somehow, maybe with DOAP. Many people don't use gnomefiles.org
> because we don't want to enter information in multiple places. I've mostly
> stopped using freshmeat for the same reasons.

Gnomefiles has special needs for fields. If the DOAP standard can accomodate 
these (it was originally designed for Freshmeat AFAIK), and if someone help 
me out with the PHP part of pulling these correctly into the DB, the feature 
will be added.

> An official GNOME software map must also clearly identify any software in
> the map that is not free(dom) or open source, which gnomefiles.org doesn't
> currently do.

As I wrote to the email the marketing-list that hasn't got through yet (I 
can't seem to be able to register with this list), this is to be fixed. For 
example, a non-OSS license will be displayed in italics, in red color and 
maybe a popup window explaining that this is not open source. I am not sure 
how more clear I can make it without changing the existing DB...

> For instance, "VM Player" is listed, confusingly as
> "freeware", and "VMware" is listed as "commercial".

Actually both are correct. VMWare is commercial (or was when it was entered 
in the DB) and VMWare Player is freeware.

Eugenia