Re: Consider adding license information to freedesktop.org wiki contents?
Hello all, Several weeks have passed and seems that there's no progress here; the mail copy sent to original discussion participants got no replies and one of the email address also bounces. It would be great if anyone could help me get into contact with the original author of https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-manager-interface . Besides, I believe setting up a default license for freedesktop.org contents should be of higher priority given freedesktop.org's fame and importance in FLOSS world. -- Regards, Boyuan Yang 在 2018年3月22日星期四 CST 下午7:53:22，Thomas Kluyver 写道： > +1 to having a default license for the wiki contents. > > Code samples in a wiki are often meant to be copied and pasted, so it seems > appropriate to license them permissively, like an MIT license, or even > public domain. I don't feel strongly about the non-code content, but CC-BY > would be an easy default. > > Thomas > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018, at 9:27 AM, Boyuan Yang wrote: > > Dear xdg list members, > > > > I think it might be a great idea if we could explicitly add license > > information for freedesktop.org wiki contents. > > > > I raised this question on #freedesktop@freenode before and heard from > > that current license is "undefined". > > > > To be more concrete, I would like to know the license and author for > > page [1]. Some downstream projects are including the XML file into > > their projects yet the uncertain license of code snippet caused some > > copyright troubles. Looking through git history is not helpful since > > the original page was converted from moinmoin wiki and the original > > author information is lost. > > > > Daniels also suggested that any new content on wiki can (and should) > > have licensing information added. I think that the wiki should also > > choose a fallback license. When the author didn't point out the > > copyright information for page contents explicitly, the default > > license should apply. That could eliminate any licensing problem in > > the future. > > > > > > Also sending mail copy to those involved in the discussion for > > creating file-manager interface. Hope that the original author could > > read the mail and explicitly state the license for page [1]. > > > > > > [1] > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-manager-interface/ > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Boyuan Yang signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
mime info for z Machine game images
hi all > I play a lot of text adventure games of the z machine image format. To > avoid going into exhaustive detail, it's an old binary format from the > late eighties and early nineties made by a company called infocom. I've > created a frotz.xml file which has basic glob pattern support for these > mime types. They are very basic, having no magic matching since I'm not > sure how to add these. I'd like these to become part of the freedesktop > mime database if possible. The glob pattern is *.z1-8, but there may be > other file extensions I'm not aware of. I'm not sure at all how to get > good magic info for a file type, any help on that would be greatly > appreciated. I'd like to help out improve the mime database with support > for some currently missing mime types for game disk images as well, > noteably ps1 through 4, and nintendo switch images. I also created a bug > report for adding audible support, and this was done but never added to > the freedesktop database, the only reason I can think of is copyright > concerns, but this is only support for the format, you can't actually > play them. It is only so that when a file manager comes across these > files, they say what they are, it is still up to the user to provide > supporting apps. Any help would greatly be appreciated. I'm attaching my > frotz.xml file for review. > > Thanks > > Kendell Clark > > -- Open source is much more than just a license. It is a community of people exercising our god given rights to use, study, modify and share software and ideas. And breaking drm wherever we find it. ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
mime info for z Machine game images
> hi all > > I play a lot of text adventure games of the z machine image format. To > avoid going into exhaustive detail, it's an old binary format from the > late eighties and early nineties made by a company called infocom. I've > created a frotz.xml file which has basic glob pattern support for these > mime types. They are very basic, having no magic matching since I'm not > sure how to add these. I'd like these to become part of the freedesktop > mime database if possible. The glob pattern is *.z1-8, but there may be > other file extensions I'm not aware of. I'm not sure at all how to get > good magic info for a file type, any help on that would be greatly > appreciated. I'd like to help out improve the mime database with support > for some currently missing mime types for game disk images as well, > noteably ps1 through 4, and nintendo switch images. I also created a bug > report for adding audible support, and this was done but never added to > the freedesktop database, the only reason I can think of is copyright > concerns, but this is only support for the format, you can't actually > play them. It is only so that when a file manager comes across these > files, they say what they are, it is still up to the user to provide > supporting apps. Any help would greatly be appreciated. I'm attaching my > frotz.xml file for review. > > Thanks > > Kendell Clark > > -- Open source is much more than just a license. It is a community of people exercising our god given rights to use, study, modify and share software and ideas. And breaking drm wherever we find it. ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
