[maemo-developers] Is mauku open source, i.e free or is in non-free?
From: Aldon Hynes Aldon.Hynes at Orient-Lodge.comDate: Thu Jan 28 20:13:23 EET 2010
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Pauli: Establishing clear service levels for repositories and sub-repositories wrt autobuilder and QA : +1 Showing license information in package metadata: +1 As to handling payments for non-gratis software, there was a good discussion about adding Donate x$ recently. In the old days of PC Shareware, it was not uncommon for developers to distribute software that either asked for a donation, or required some sort of payment to become fully functional. These payment mechanisms were not dependent on the distribution mechanisms. Aldon -----Original Message----- From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org]On Behalf Of Pauli Virtanen Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:52 PM To: maemo-developers at maemo.org Subject: RE: Is mauku open source, i.e free or is in non-free? to, 2010-01-28 kello 10:51 -0500, Aldon Hynes kirjoitti: [clip] > I do not see any intended malice in Marius' email and I do not mean to > pick on him. However, I am very concerned that much of the tone here may > drive away mobile phone application developers that are not Linux > evangelists. I think that would be unfortunate. I would like to see the > N900 and its descendents as dominant devices in the smartphone market. To > do so, we need to think about how we relate to all developers. The main question here is probably whether the 'free' and 'non-free' repositories (sub-repositories?) have the same service level: autobuilder and QA mainly. If they do, then I don't think there is an argument why Maemo couldn't apply the same policies as Debian or Fedora vs. free/non-free content. The developer should just pick the correct choice when submitting the app. Anyway, the main point seems to be controlling the license situation in the Maemo repository -- the licenses of the applications are not shown anywhere in the package metadata. For developers and some users this would be interesting information to have. > Would it make sense for maemo.org to have non-gratis repositories? > Personally, I think there is value to this. One of the complaints about > Apple is the way they control their App Store. Unless you jailbreak your > iPhone, you need to run apps from the App Store, which is a pain to get apps > into and gives Apple complete control over what gets run on non-jailbroke > phones. Non-gratis software requires that someone organizes the payment and content distribution channels. Nokia as a big company obviously is in a position to do so, but I'm not sure what maemo.org with its (if I understand correctly) mainly volunteer work force can do here. -- Pauli Virtanen _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers at maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
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