On Tue, May 15, 2007 12:45 am, Adrian Schröter wrote:
On Monday 14 May 2007 18:38:34 wrote Silviu Marin-Caea:
On Monday 14 May 2007 06:25:33 pm Michael Loeffler wrote:
and give feedback on the list. After incorporation of your feedback we'll announce the survey to get broad feedback.
* acroread should stay because it's still the reference rendering software for .pdf. Although I am very satisfied with KPDF that's the default application which opens .pdf
* agfa-fonts have equal metric to MS fonts, if I have the information correctly, so they're needed. Note that Red Hat released a set of GPL fonts with equivalent metric to MS. They're called the liberation fonts
As a general rule, the more prepackaged software, the better. If SUSE doesn't have resources to package some of the not-so-widely-used proprietary software, how about the respective vendors start doing that themselves using the nice SUSE build service?
atm we have the clear policy to allow only OSI approved licenses within the build service. We could change this of course, I have the fear that mixed source packages would damage the open source character of our project.
Any opinions about this ?
Adding non OSI-licenced software would certainly "change" the OSS character of your project. I would refrain from using the word, "damage", in describing the changes. I understand the hesitation to add non OSS software to the mix. However, it may be a fundemental shift in philosophy that may be needed. SUSE only has the ability to function - in my opinion - because of the nice integration with software packages, the excellent management tool (YaST) not present on other distros (http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/56), and the easy way to add multimedia via Guru and/or Packman. Add in "official" Novell-purchased licenses for multimedia and I'd be willing to bet people will come. I've heard often that people purchase Xandros and Linspire simply because of their ability to "do" multimedia. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org