106 comments

• Jorge Leitão commented  ·  April 17, 2013 3:21 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  GPL or equivalent on Mendeley's desktop would be a major reason for me to return to mendeley (@ Zotero now) after Elsevier bought Mendeley.

• Eduardo Altmann commented  ·  April 17, 2013 3:13 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  A GPL or compatible license would clearly show the commitment of Mendeley to "open science". Such a sign would be even more important after Elsevier bought Mendeley. As many mentioned before, I'm also considering Zotero as an alternative.

• Martin commented  ·  March 29, 2013 11:09 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Using GPL software is very important to me too. While I think that Mendeley is the better program, I wll use Zotero until the lisence of Mendeley changes.

• Teresa commented  ·  March 4, 2013 7:17 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Change to GPL will boost the development of mendeley !!!!!

• Teresa commented  ·  March 4, 2013 7:14 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I love mendeley but i´m moving to Zotero...it´s not about technical issues, but because when there is a GPL option, I change to it.

• Jaume Nualart commented  ·  February 23, 2013 8:11 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Is there any mendeley official answer for this important question? I cannot find it
  btw, I totally support mandeley going gpl, otherwise, probably I'll go back to Zotero

• Pol commented  ·  February 20, 2013 5:29 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  gosh, you still haven't done this? It's been 4 years! Don't fight the tide.

• Mishrito commented  ·  January 31, 2013 7:28 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I agree with this. Seeing as how Mendeley already has such a large community, releasing it under GPL will surely bring great improvement. Like someone said, this won't hurt your business since you make most of your money from cloud storage services anyways.

• Kelly commented  ·  January 10, 2013 7:15 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  at a minimum, if you ever even come close to dropping support for one or another platform (Mac, Linux, or Windows), it would be cruel not to at least open-source a platform-specific branch of the code so that people tied to that platform can continue to support it themselves. As a Mac user and a Linux user, I have been burned many times by lagging support on my platforms...

• Huynh Quoc Bao commented  ·  October 13, 2012 2:00 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Manually edit citation styles in Mendeley Desktop
  http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-gene...
  There should be a way to manually edit the citation styles in Mendeley Desktop, preferably in a WYSIWYG editor.

• fbianco commented  ·  September 5, 2012 9:20 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Hello,

  An example of improved (at least for me) export to BibTex file is available under

  https://github.com/fbianco/mendeley2bibtex

  It would be good to be able to contribute directly to Mendeley code...

• fbianco commented  ·  August 30, 2012 12:49 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I would be willing to work on the BibTex export, which is buggy and lacks of options. Please release the source code, and you will have hundreds of people working for you, improving your great software.

• AdminRobert Knight (Admin, Mendeley) commented  ·  June 14, 2012 8:50 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Hello Simon,

  Thanks. The license for the rest of the code is the same but license headers were never added to the new files. I've made a note to add these.

  As you did, we ended up implementing some logic in C++, exposed to Word/VBA via a COM server. I still need to clarify what we can do for the licensing of that.

• Etienne Low-Decarie commented  ·  May 17, 2012 7:36 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Merge with: http://goo.gl/lnsOL

• Simon commented  ·  May 3, 2012 1:18 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I released as much of the source to your/my Word plugin as I think I can without further permission on GitHub: https://github.com/simonster/mendeley-word-plugin

• Simon commented  ·  April 18, 2012 7:49 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  @William Gunn, great, how about the Word plugin? I don't know if it still contains the code I wrote, but consider it a gesture of goodwill toward the open source community.

• AdminWilliam Gunn (Admin, Mendeley) commented  ·  April 11, 2012 8:32 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  The code for the Open/Libre Office plugin is available on Github: https://github.com/Mendeley/openoffice-plugin and the citeproc code is available in many flavors:

  JS - https://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js/wiki/Home
  Py - https://github.com/bdarcus/citeproc-py
  Rb - https://github.com/inukshuk/citeproc-ruby

  There's also some API client code to get you started: https://github.com/Mendeley/mendeley-oapi-example

  This allows anyone to build their own client that interfaces with the Mendeley API, just as Gunnar suggests. See http://dev.mendeley.com for details.

• Robert Pollak commented  ·  March 1, 2012 11:47 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I guess this is not going to happen. Let's move to Zotero instead.

• Gunnar Wolf commented  ·  March 1, 2012 9:03 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  GPL or any free license would be great. Or, at least, enabling the Free Software programming community to build such packages by publishing your API.

• Anonymous commented  ·  January 23, 2012 6:31 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  hear hear