Re: The relation with gnomefiles.org

[Gergely Nagy <greg gnome hu>]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 15:59 +0200, Quim Gil wrote:
> El dv 14 de 07 del 2006 a les 13:23 +0200, en/na Gergely Nagy va
> escriure:
> 
> > This is probably necessary to "blend in" with the other gnome sites.
> 
> Greg, before you go any further...
> 
> gnomefiles.org is *not* a GNOME subsite and has no organic relation or
> dependency with the GNOME project. They happen to have *gnome* in their
> URL and project name, but it's not like gnomejournal.org or
> gnomedesktop.org. Therefore we need to set up a kind of collaboration
> not mixing identities and ownership.

I just ment that if we want tighter integration, we need to align our
policies and appearances. _Not_ assimilation :) I mention below:

>> I think with common policies, a common look and some
>> cross-feeding our sites can be nicely integrated, while keeping
>> enough independence.


> I got confused one year ago when digging consciously through *gnome*
> subsites on year ago and I bet this is still confusing many users out
> there. 
> 
> Whatever the collaboration is, we need to make clear this relation.

Definitely. 

> I was not suggesting of using gnomefiles.org as a substitution of the
> GNOME software map we still need, and need to develop ourselves (i.e. to
> identify which are official GNOME applications and which are not). I
> think we need to have a healthy bridge with gnomefiles.org because it is
> possibly the most popular GNOME/GTK+  resource, we need to suport them
> because they love what we do  ;)  and they can be a good gateway to get
> new active users and contributors.

I agree. I totally see the point for both an "official software map",
and a collection of gnome/gtk/other apps that are useful for gnome
users. I see a lot of value in integrating with gfo more.

> BTW, just curious. Can someone tell which licenses have VM Player and
> VWWare server? It took me a while to figure out in their website and I
> still haven't come up with a single license definition for each.

Good catch. All I found was an EULA [1] and a Distribution Aggreement
[2] for the player. I think Christian Hammond (ChipX86) is the person to
talk to about this.

[1] http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/player.html
[2] http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/player_distribution.html