On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 14:16 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the upstream GNOME Software maintainer, but I'm emailing now as a > Fedora package maintainer. Upstream gnome-software is soon to add > support for paid software, driven by Canonical for the snappy work > they are doing. One upside for us is that it now makes it possible to > provide a way for end users to donate to specific projects, and after > talking to Peter Robinson he suggested I should email here for > advice. > > The options we have are basically: > > * Disable all support for paid applications and donations from the > UI > completely > * Enable the "Donate" button that takes you to the upstream-defined > donation link (e.g. GIMP -> https://www.gimp.org/donating/) > * Hijack the donate button to take people to > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Contribute or something more beautiful > > We could also enable/disable the button depending on the non-freeness > or 3rd-party-ness of the application, but then my worry would be that > would actually _dissuade_ otherwise free software projects from being > shipped by Fedora as the revenue stream would be stopped when they > move from a COPR to core. > > I'm not sure what the Fedora requirements are here, and I wanted some > advice from the Council about what is acceptable. Thanks! I'm not on the council, but I'll add my own opinion anyway: I don't think the last option is a great idea; it may lead to confusion for users ('I wanted to donate to the Gimp and you tried to made me give money to Fedora instead') and resentment among upstreams ('You're using my work to collect money for your project'). _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
