Hi, no, fman is indeed not open-source, but as far as I understand, there is good reason for it. There is a single developer behind the program trying to make a living from working on the program and he believes this would not be possible if it were open source. The program itself is usable without a license and the author transparently promises to open-source the program in case the development stops ( https://fman.io/blog/transparency/#open-source-promise). To me, this seems a fair approach conisdering the circumstances. Best, David st 12. 12. 2018 v 23:39 odesílatel Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> napsal: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 04:03:19PM +0100, David Roesel wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > As instructed by the "Writing an article for the Fedora Magazine", I > > created my very first pitch for a possible article named "Introducing > fman, > > a minimalistic dual-pane file manager". The preview link follows. > > > > > https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=23806&preview=true&preview_id=23806&preview_nonce=80b98792c8&post_format=standard&_thumbnail_id=-1 > > > > I am looking forward to feedback as well as a possible approval. > > Is fman open source? > > While we don't require every software we cover to be open source, > (1) we usually prefer it where there are good alternatives and the > non-open software is not alreaday hugely popular on Fedora; > (2) we don't usually feature software that costs money. > > If I understand correctly, fman is payware and thus I don't think the > editors (I'm just one of several) will consider it suitable for > coverage in Fedora Magazine. > > -- > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com > _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
