Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
On 2/23/11 12:25 AM, Valter Mura wrote:
In data giovedì 13 gennaio 2011 22:53:59, Fabián Rodríguez ha scritto:
On 11-01-12 11:35 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2011/01/12 8:49 AM Mirek M. wrote:
2011/1/12 Jonathan Aquilina<eagles051...@gmail.com>
Why not license it under an appropriate license that would allow
us to put
it in the app store? would that mean we would need to remove the
GPL or can
it be dual licensed to go on the app store?
I'm no expert, but as I understand it, LibreOffice is licensed
under the
LGPL, which should allow it to be used with DRM (whereas VLC was
GPL).
In order for LibreOffice to change its license, it would need to get
an OK
from all its contributors, including Oracle, which is not too
likely to
happen IMHO. But I don't think that's necessary in this case.
There is no DRM used on the Mac OS X App Store. There is DRM on the
Apple iOS AppStore. They are two separate entities. The FSF objections
are to the DRM on the iOS AppStore and do not apply to the OS X App
Store. Of course, the FSF objects to Apple and any other company that
does not give away their software for free.
Larry
Hi Larry,
DRM means "Digital Rights Management" and although it (apparently) has
been easily circumvented in the App store, there are indeed such
control
mechanisms implemented:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1075297
A quick search shows confusing information about this (again):
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/poetic-justice-watch-crackulous-r
eleased-pirated-re-sold.ars
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20027731-264.html
"Free" in "Free software" refers to Freedom, not free as in $0 cost.
It's a common mistake, but the Free Software Foundation is not
objecting
to anyone selling Free software. Quite the opposite, in fact, except
the
software itself is not considering the only goods you would be
monetizing. This article should help understanding such model:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
Larry, knowing that you are the audience we seek, I'd like to know how
you found out about OOo (or Libreoffice, if you didn't know OOo
before).
Perhaps that can provide other ways to better reach Mac audiences ?
Should it be possible to have a light Libò version for BlackBerry?
This kind
of mobile phone is used by the majority of businessmen, I suppose it
should be
useful to have it inside the phone.
What do you think?
The biggest problem with getting on mobile devices, is that they use
java. from my impressions on the project as a whole and following the
dev list is that they are trying to remove java all together. It would
be interesting to get some developer feedback on this.
Maybe I don't understand this, but it seems to me that mobile devices
are so different from regular PCs that any version of LO for mobile
devices might just as well be written from scratch for that purpose
borrowing little or no code from from the regular LO for PCs. That
being the case, one might use Java, and the other not.
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