[Mageia-discuss] Introducing mageia-app-db

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le vendredi 5 novembre 2010 02:35:12, Michael Scherer a écrit :
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> Le jeudi 04 novembre 2010 à 09:58 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> > Le jeudi 4 novembre 2010 09:01:33, Daniel Le Berre a écrit :
> > > I noticed that web site a few days ago:
> > > http://apps.mandriva.org.pl/en/category/gnome
> > > 
> > > 
> > > It looks like it offers an "app store" like approach to package
> > > management for Mandriva.
> > > 
> > > The current features are not much different from the current package
> > > manager, but it could be a good starting point for your project IMHO.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks for the link, I didn't know about this project. There are interesting ideas there, from the presentation point of view.  
> > However from what I see it will be easier for me to start from scratch (we already began) than reusing something else. 
> > This is no NIH syndrome, rather the need to have total control on the database schema and the 
> > code in order to be able to implement the features we want.
> 
> Not to mention that the source code do not seems available.
> 
> May I suggest to take a look at the license AGPL v3 for the software
> ( and also the idea behind Franklin Street statement )

Why not (although I didn't understand the Franklin Street thing). Why this very license rather than another one ?

Regards

Samuel Verschelde