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@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
