Hi Italo, Marc, Andrea, *, Am Montag, 4. Juli 2011, 11:43:37 schrieb Italo Vignoli: > On 7/4/11 8:46 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > No, I think "Freeware" (besides the typo in the corresponding link) must > > be removed, since it goes against the stated policy (or to the closest > > thing we have, i.e., RMS's statement on the website). > > IANAL, but "freeware" is not a license, while we should only list > extensions with a free software license. People using a proprietary > license are - of course - free to use such a license, but we cannot > neither suggest nor promote their extensions on TDF web sites. > > Personally, I don't see a reason to list proprietary extensions. > Software vendors developing proprietary extensions can promote them > through their web sites. We could, as a service to LibreOffice users, > link only proprietary extensions providing features not available with > free software extensions (although I'm not sure that this is a good idea). > > Personally, again, I would state that we have a preference for copyleft > licenses vs permissive licenses - although the latter are free software > licenses - because I would like to avoid seeing the IBMs of the world > taking the code to develop a proprietary version without giving back to > the community.
I'll delete the entry for freeware then. I don't think it's a good idea to have a license listed and send a pop-up-window to the user, if he choose that license. We can create a statement at the home page of the extensions and templates site about the licenses we provide and what licenses we prefer. That should be a task for a native English speaker ;-) Regards, Andreas -- ## Developer LibreOffice ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows ## http://LibreOffice.org ## Support the Document Foundation (http://documentfoundation.org) ## Meine Seite: http://www.amantke.de -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
