[IAEP] [SLOBS] non-free activities on ASLO

[Stefan Unterhauser]

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Yes.  We ratified at a SLOBS meeting that non-free activities (or
>> content) should *not* be hosted on ASLO, and attempted to specify
>> what we mean by non-free:
>
> I personally think it is very good that free are clearly separated
> from non-free, and I think it's good strategically for all involved.
>
> There is one aspect that will be tricky on the content side -- it is
> very easy to create / release content that is in itself free, but
> dependent on non-free software. Picture the well-meaning content
> creator that releases a Flash interactive under a CC license (and it
> uses fancy Flash10 things that are not in Gnash).
>
> Educational content creators aren't as educated as FOSS programmers in
> the vagaries and politics of patents, software licensing and all (they
> are educated in other legalities, usually). We can't flame them for
> being dumb, they are smart about a different set of things.
>
> Much of their work will be what Debian would call "contrib" -- Free in
> itself but depending on non-free bits.
>
> While 'contrib' in Debian is usually not very big, if Sugar succeeds
> attracting content creators, it might be a big category... at least
> until the free tools mature, and the authors learn why it matters,
> switch tools, etc.
>
> It is a social process that will take a while -- I am sure there'll be
> 'contrib' stuff for quite a while, maybe forever.
>
> </rambling background>
>
> So... what about "contrib"?
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