中文译文

发件人: Joomla! 官方扩展库 
收件人: Joomla! 之门 
主题:   JED 的变化
日期:   2008年12月26日 22:09:23 -0500

 
亲爱的 baijianpeng,

我们 Joomla 官方扩展库（JED）想通过这封邮件告诉您一些本扩展库政策方面即将发生的变化，这些变化可能会对身为开发人员的您有一些影响。很快就会有关于这些变化的正式声明，不过我们希望首先告知各位开发人员。

这些变化将使得 JED 更现代化，并使它与 Joomla 项目的大宗旨保持一致。经过一番深思熟虑, Joomla! 团队下定决心：JED 应该是完全体现 Joomla 项目的价值观 —— 尤其是 GPL 协议所代表的自由 —— 的一个社区资源站点。
 
在星期一, JED 本身已经由基于 GNU GPL 协议授权的新版 Mosets Tree for J1.5 组件重新在 Joomla! 1.5 平台上启动了。与此同时，若干重要的新政策也发布了。这些新政策将在未来六个月之内实施，JED 团队决心与第三方开发人员密切合作，来完成这项转换。

从（2009年）3月31日起，JED 不再接受新的非 GPL 授权扩展，而到了7月1日，全部非 GPL 扩展都将（从官方扩展库）删除。同样的，3月31日起，JED 将停止接收新的针对 Joomla! 1.0 平台的扩展，到了7月1日，全部针对 J1.0 的扩展都将从扩展库消失。最后，到7月1日时，任何扩展都要完全符合本项目的商标政策。

这样的变化是为了强化 Joomla! 项目更专注于它在2008年9月所明确记录的核心使命、远见和价值观。

我们了解，这对于某些开发人员来说是一个艰难的过程，我们觉得有责任给出足够的提示。我们要确保开发人员有足够的时间来对他们产品的营销策略和商务结构作出调整，必要的话，还能继续在官方扩展库发布他们的产品。

通过这些变化, JED 将支持 GPL 开发人员，我们也采取了一些措施来加强这种支持。我们认为，获取某个扩展的最佳来源就是到该扩展的作者网站下载。因此，我们不会链接到不是原始作者提交的、只做 GPL 扩展收集的网站。这些不是 GPL 协议的要求，但是倒是与我们的“分支”方针不谋而合：不会发布任何对 JED 已刊登软件的直接副本，或者稍微改造的副本。无论在什么时候，只要有可能，我们就要支持原始作者以保持扩展列表的纯洁，也支持在 Joomla 平台上创建和改进软件的开发人员。

如果想要在 JED 发布某个软件衍生产品，它必须符合我们的要求：

 

 

    * 有显著改变的分支软件必须在功能、安全性或者结构方面有显著的代码改进。
    * 想要开发并支持分支软件的人必须体现出开发和支持这个新软件的意愿。
    * 唯一的名称 —— 我们不允许由新作者提交的分支软件在未经原软件作者允许情况下使用相同的名称。
    * 明确的版本结构 —— 版本编号必须清楚地代表一个新软件。


我们感谢您在这场转换过程中的耐心配合。我们将为涉及到的每一个人提供任何可能的帮助以便使这个转换过程尽量轻松。官方团队会向开发人员提供他们更改授权协议(或是首次确定授权，如果还没有授权方式的话)所需的一切信息和帮助。JED 编辑及核心团队成员，还有 Open Source Matters 委员会，都以做好准备来为任何需要这种帮助的开发人员提供建议和辅助。如果您有关于授权协议的任何问题，或者需要帮助，您就可以通过下面的 email 地址联系 OSM ： license@opensourcematters.org ，或者联系 JED 编辑： team@extensions.joomla.org


谢谢！
Joomla 官方扩展库团队

Original English version

From: JED Team 
To:   Joomlagate.com 
Subject: Changes to the JED 
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:09:23 -0500

 
Dear baijianpeng,

We at the Joomla Extension Directory would like to inform you about some upcoming changes to the directory policy that will impact you as a developer.  An announcement will be coming shortly about these changes and we wanted our developers to be among the first to know.

These changes will modernize the JED and bring it into line with the overall mission of the Joomla Project. After careful thought and reflection, the Joomla! Project has determined that the Joomla! Extensions Directory should be a community resource that fully embodies the project's values, especially freedom as embodied by the GPL license.
 
On Monday, the JED itself was relaunched on the Joomla! 1.5 platform using a new GNU GPL licensed Joomla! 1.5 version of Mosets Tree. Along with this several important new policies were announced. These will be implemented over the next six months, and the JED team pledges to work closely with the third party developer community as we make this transition.

Starting on March 31 the JED will no longer accept new non GPL extensions and on July 1 all non GPL extensions will be removed. Also, on March 31 the JED will stop accepting new extensions for Joomla! 1.0 and on July 1 all 1.0 extensions will be unpublished.  Finally, by July 1 all extensions will need to fully comply with the project's trademark policies.

These changes are designed to strengthen the project's commitment to its core mission, vision and values as articulated in September 2008.

We understand this will be a difficult process for some developers, and we feel a responsibility to give ample notice. We want to make sure our developers have enough time to make adjustments to their product marketing and business structure, if necessary, in order to maintain their listing in the directory.

Throughout these changes, the JED will be supporting our GPL developers and we have implemented some policy changes to enhance support. We think that the best place to get an extension is from the original developer of that extension.  Therefore we will not link to collections of GPL extensions that are not submitted by the original developer. These are not requirements of the GPL license but rather fall in line with our "forking" guidelines that no direct copies or minor-changed copies of JED-listed projects will be listed.  We support the original project developer whenever possible to maintain the integrity of the listings and support developers who are building and innovating on the Joomla platform.

To have a forked project listed in the JED it must meet our requirements:

    * Significant change-Forked project must represent a significant code improvement, either in features or security and structure
    * Intent to develop and support-Forked project must exhibit an intent to develop and support the new product
    * Unique name-We do not allow forked projects by new developers to build on the name of the original developer without permission
    * Unique version structure- Version numbering must clearly indicate a new project


We thank you for your patience during these transitions. We will extend any assistance possible to making the transition as painless as possible for everyone involved. The project is committed to providing the information and help that developers need in order to relicense (or to license for the first time, if there is no current license). The JED editors and members of the Core Team and Open Source Matters board are ready to advise or assist any developer who would like this help. If you have any questions about licensing or want help, then you can contact OSM with the following email address license@opensourcematters.org or the JED editors team@extensions.joomla.org


Thank you,
Joomla Extensions Directory Team