I told myself I would not get involved in this subject, but I have to
say a couple of things.
First, there's a lot of talk (here and the earlier thread) that loosely
equivocates fundraising with crowdfunding. They're not the same. To
tell a project that it should simply accept donations rather than use a
crowdfunding platform is a false equivocation. Crowdfunding's mixture
of elements -- the presentation, the pitch of the vision, the element
of a deadline, staggered donation levels and gifts -- is not replicated
by publishing a "Donate!" banner.
Second, linking to a web site is not an automatic endorsement of its
script licensing or the practices of its operator. Lacking semantic
operators for hyperlinks, context is everything. Personally, I trust
my readers to understand this.
-- Jim
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:50 PM, meg ford <meg...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Magdalen,
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Magdalen Berns
<m.be...@thismagpie.com> wrote:
I think you have agreed with me on the wiki and the blog but seem to
not realise that, for some strange reason. To clarify, I agreed that
individuals should be able to make their own choices for how they
blog and pointed out that the wiki and would be too difficult to
regulate than is practical. Really, the point here is that the core
policy chat is referring to what GNOME, the organisation should
endorse. The reason I would have to disagree with you that a policy
on something like that is not a waste of time and resources is
because some of the community feel like that GNOME as a "brand"
represents a certain set of principles and that it may send out the
wrong message to the general public for GNOME to be seen to be
advocating or endorsing the use of non-free software by casually
treating non-free links like they're the same as free ones.
I understood you to be talking about labeling links as non-free even
on wiki pages and Planet GNOME. Were you only talking about links to
fundraising pages?
Meg
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