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Linux Mint Diverting Banshee Revenue

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-their-cut dept.

LinuxScribe writes "According Linux Mint founder Clement Lefebvre, the popular Linux Mint distribution has changed the Amazon.com affiliate code for the Banshee music player so that Mint, not Canonical or the GNOME Foundation, will receive the revenue from MP3 sales through Banshee. Though a trivial amount of money ($3.41 in November 2011), Linux Mint's actions still raise the question: how should revenue be shared between upstream and downstream FLOSS projects?"

2 of 178 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Let the users choose... by gigne · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If I had mod points...

    "Thanks for running Banshee... From time to time online transactions generate a small amount of commission.
    Where would you like any proceeds to go to:
          [ ] Canonical
          [ ] Mint
          [X] Cancer Research Charity
          [ ] A.N Other Charity
    "

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  2. Nothing really by ewanm89 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Okay, lets simplify this for all that don't want to read the articles.
    Banshee's own link is dead so Canonical replaced it with their own in Ubuntu.
    When Linux MINT saw this in the changelogs while repackaging, they did the same thing replacing it with their own.

    I'm sure both would change this back if Banshee upstream started accepting donations again.