I suggest you ...

to publish your desktop under GPL license.

It will be very good if you could publish your desktop under GPL or compatible license. That will boost its development, features and make it localized and modified according to the needs of much wider population. Indeed, this will make much more audiences for you.
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  • Jorge LeitãoJorge Leitão commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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 AltmannEduardo Altmann commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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.

  • MartinMartin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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.

  • TeresaTeresa commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

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

  • TeresaTeresa commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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 NualartJaume Nualart commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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

  • PolPol commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

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

  • MishritoMishrito commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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.

  • KellyKelly commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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...

  • fbiancofbianco commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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.

  • Robert KnightAdminRobert Knight (Admin, Mendeley) commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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.

  • SimonSimon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @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.

  • William GunnAdminWilliam Gunn (Admin, Mendeley) commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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.

  • Gunnar WolfGunnar Wolf commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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.

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