On 18 November 2011 19:14, Robert T. Short <oct...@phaselockedsystems.com> wrote: > Martin's point makes a lot of sense. However, I still don't see the > problem with hosting non-free software in the forge project.
The problem is that when a new version of such package is released, someone need to upload it to the server. The site also needs to be updated to reflect changes to new versions. Bugs for the package need to be reported somewhere. This is all done by the devs and admins of octave-forge project. This is of course, aside the ideological issues. 2011/11/18 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@octave.org>: > You really don't think that license managers, software patents, NDAs, > non-competition agreements, hidden source code, secret algorithms, and > forbidding your users from doing whatever they want with the software > is at all bad? > [...] >> I have long been a proponent of the free (and not just $) software >> community, > > I am not sure, but you seem to be suggesting that free software can't > be commercial or it's not associated to money. A lot of good ventures > have been built on selling free software, and you should also pay for > free software: > > https://my.fsf.org/donate/working-together/octave > > Just because we won't restrict your software or make you install > license managers doesn't mean we don't want your money. I started this thread to discuss the future of the non-free section. While I understand that this will cause people discussing licensing issues, I'd like people to refrain from going too much off-topic. This includes wether free software can, or can not, be commercial. Also, people have different opinions on licensing of software. Everyone that has been part of a free software community has probably already heard and said all possible arguments for each side. Let's please not start a flame war on this. Whoever's interested in making such discussion, please do so in either a different thread or in private e-mails, so that people who are not interested can filter it easily without affecting the issue at hand. Carnë Draug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
