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 odesÃlatel Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com 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&am...
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.
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