Re: [libreoffice-website] LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

Andreas Mantke:
> Am Montag, 27. Juni 2011, 19:02:42 schrieb Andrea Pescetti:
> > For usability, I'd prefer not to have a default here. Otherwise, people
> > may overlook the field and it might well happen that someone uploads an
> > extension that gets tagged as "GPL" but actually has (within the OXT
> > file) a totally different license.
>
> I changed the field, in which the contributor choose the license, from drop down to 
> radio format. I added also a warning text to the description of the field:
> http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1848120/

Thanks Andreas, this is a significant improvement: sloppy authors will
now have to be aware of that field.

It's unfortunate that something released with the same license as the
LibreOffice new files cannot be uploaded properly due to the need to
choose only one license, but limitations due to the tools (something
that I cannot understand in general) will maybe be overcome in future.

Coming to the contents, I have 3 questions about your screenshot:
- "Freeware" will block the upload, right? I.e., if someone chooses
  "Freeware" then the extension submission will be refused.
- Why is "Commercial License" in the list? GPL, LGPL and the other
  options listed are (also) commercial licenses, so it's redundant.
- I don't really want to start any discussions about this, but I'm not
  aware of a large number of extensions distributed under the "Zope
  Public License" while I would, say, expect that there will be
  extensions contributed under the Apache License. Of course the Apache
  License can fit in the category of "Approved by OSI" and "Approved by
  FSF", but maybe it deserves its own option. If this has already been
  examined, just ignore it. The first extension I'm going to contribute
  is under GPLv3 anyway...

Regards,
  Andrea.


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