On Thursday, February 11, 2016 10:06:57 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 10:08:19 PM Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 23:03:47 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > > On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 23:15:21 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > > > I'll also start a new sub-thread. > > > > Since this vision draft is very broad: what kind of projects do you > > > > consider to be covered by this vision draft ? > > > > Or, the other way round, are there projects, or types of projects > > > > which > > > > you see as not part of this vision ? > > I don't know what exactly you mean with "being covered by" or "see as part > of the vision", but let's assume "projects that identify with the goals > described in our vision. > > > > Sure. Projects that use open source licenses for purely economical > > > reasons, or those that don't care about the user, or her privacy. > > > > > > A lot of it is about priorities, and the reason why people work on these > > > project, their goals. > > > > Let's get a bit more concrete. > > So I guess most GNU projects would fit ? Bash, gcc, emacs ? > > GCC and Emacs (I couldn't find info about bash) require copyright assigment > through a mandatory contributor license agreements *1. That would be against > KDE's manifesto. It makes sense to work together, but we disagree about the > how to do it.
so do I understand correctly that in general you would consider projects like a shell, a compiler and a text-mode editor as potential KDE projects ? What's your opinion on one of the original goals of KDE to provide a set of software with a consistent look & feel and usability, stuff like common printing dialogs, file dialog, help systems, dialog layouts, etc, etc. ? > > What about non-software projects like Project Gutenberg (free books), > > Jamendo (free indie music), SubSurfWiki.org (free knowledge) ? > > Paraview (empowering students and scientists) ? > > The draft states clear that we do Free software. There's also a thin line here. Most web sites require some programming. Some more, some less. E.g. a knowledge site could have some special code for presenting/visualizing data, a music site could have custom solutions for streaming, etc. Where do you draw the line ? Alex _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community