Re: GNOME Roadmap



On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:31:23PM -0400, David Sugar wrote:
> I have also read that section.  I am not trying to provoke an argument or even 
> to elaborate on my own views, but I am simply asking, for clarification, on 
> why it was considered "important" to enable others (ISV's, whomever) to be 
> able to create commercially redistributable proprietary software.  Is this 
> expressly in reference to media frameworks, or is it implied for the whole of 
> GNOME?

  This was always considered a key part of the evaluation when integrating
a library in the desktop platform. I can't remember this rule being formally 
written down, but it certainly appears in mailing list archives.
  Note that this only applies to the platform libraries, pure GPL apps are fine.

Daniel

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