GNOME accessibility developers concered about Oracle's commitment

Posted Feb 8, 2010 18:00 UTC (Mon) by rodgerd (guest, #58896)
In reply to: GNOME accessibility developers concered about Oracle's commitment by kragil
Parent article: GNOME accessibility developers concerned about Oracle's commitment

So many people wanting to sell Linux desktops. Funny that it's Sun who have
been funding this rather than, say, Ubuntu.

GNOME accessibility developers concered about Oracle's commitment

Posted Feb 8, 2010 20:29 UTC (Mon) by rahvin (guest, #16953) [Link] (5 responses)

You forget, Ubuntu doesn't contribute back to the community. <yes there was at least a little sarcasm in that>

GNOME accessibility developers concered about Oracle's commitment

Posted Feb 8, 2010 20:56 UTC (Mon) by Hanno (guest, #41730) [Link]

Funny how everybody knows what someone else should do.

GNOME accessibility developers concered about Oracle's commitment

Posted Feb 8, 2010 21:27 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link] (3 responses)

I would say that it does indeed. Ubuntu contributes more community.

GNOME accessibility developers concered about Oracle's commitment

Posted Feb 9, 2010 20:40 UTC (Tue) by donbarry (guest, #10485) [Link] (2 responses)

Contributing fanboys and blind adulation is a mixed blessing,
especially when most Ubuntu users hardly know the source that
Ubuntu uses as its bountiful upstream. Debian is still invisible
on the Ubuntu home page and it's not even obvious which of the first
tier links may mention it. That's unconscionable.

GNOME accessibility developers concered about Oracle's commitment

Posted Feb 9, 2010 22:08 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

no, that is free/open software in action.

if you want to force people to include your name (or your project's name) when they talk about their product you need to use the original BSD license.

There is a reason why almost nobody uses that anymore, and none of the commonly used license require attribution in derivitives.

GNOME accessibility developers concered about Oracle's commitment

Posted Feb 10, 2010 7:39 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]

Pretty much all the licenses require that you keep the attribution that exists in the program. What they don't require is for specific phrases to be included in advertising material.