Re: Intellectual Property Plugins and GNOME

[Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas apestaart org>]

Hi,

> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:43:49PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:26:59 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> > > Here at Sun, we have been talking with Fluendo about licensing these
> > > plugins.  As you can imagine, it is fairly expensive to acquire a
> > > license that allows a vendor to freely ship these plugins (as opposed
> > > to a per-use license).
> > [..]
> > > Perhaps Microsoft and Fluendo would find it interesting to work a
> > > license with the GNOME community
> > 
> > Such a license would violate any of the ideals that we stand for.
> 
> Ronald is correct, it would violate the Free as in Freedom.  However,
> you should be taking this to the distributions rather than the GNOME
> community itself.  Distributors and perhaps user's themselves could 
> license it.

Where is the start of this thread ? Nobody I've asked seems to have
anything before Ronald's mail.

Thomas