Re: License link - discuss

[Shane Curcuru <as...@shanecurcuru.org>]

Actually, I would point the License link on any main TLP website at the 
overview page, since it's pretty obvious from there what the specific 
legal license is, and because it provides a useful overview.

I'd agree that any License links in software code or releases themselves 
should point at the specific LICENSE-2.0 itself, like you suggest.  But 
I think a top level link on the main websites is best to go to the 
License overview page.

Any other opinions on trademarks@?

- Shane

Felix Meschberger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> While trying to bing the Sling site up to speed with the branding
> requirements [1] it occurred to me that the section "Website Navigation
> Links" requires a License link as follows:
> 
>    "License" should link to: http://www.apache.org/licenses/
> 
> IMHO the "License" link should point to the actual license, which would
> be http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 almost all the times.
> 
> Am I off-track ?
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> Felix
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs
> 
> (second try with the correct Trademarks PMC address)

Re: License link - discuss

["Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@gbiv.com>]

On Nov 1, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Felix Meschberger wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 26.10.2010, 13:42 -0400 schrieb Shane Curcuru: 
>> Actually, I would point the License link on any main TLP website at the 
>> overview page, since it's pretty obvious from there what the specific 
>> legal license is, and because it provides a useful overview.
>> 
>> I'd agree that any License links in software code or releases themselves 
>> should point at the specific LICENSE-2.0 itself, like you suggest.  But 
>> I think a top level link on the main websites is best to go to the 
>> License overview page.
>> 
>> Any other opinions on trademarks@?
> 
> Coming from the Trademarks side I could agree to a certain extent.
> Looking at it from a user perspective, though, I disagree.
> 
> Consider this: Anne is interested in Sling and goes to sling.apache.org
> and sees the License link. Fine, she has to check the license anyway, so
> lets do it right away. But what's the license ? She's not interested in
> the license history or any contributor stuff, she just wants to learn
> about the applicable license.
> 
> Hence, I think TLP pages should really point to the actual license page
> not the license overview page.

I agree.  The license link on all of the non-ASF open source projects
that I have seen go to a page describing the software license for that
project's product.  Other licenses are only discussed on the "how to
contribute" pages.

....Roy

Re: License link - discuss

[Felix Meschberger <fm...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 26.10.2010, 13:42 -0400 schrieb Shane Curcuru: 
> Actually, I would point the License link on any main TLP website at the 
> overview page, since it's pretty obvious from there what the specific 
> legal license is, and because it provides a useful overview.
> 
> I'd agree that any License links in software code or releases themselves 
> should point at the specific LICENSE-2.0 itself, like you suggest.  But 
> I think a top level link on the main websites is best to go to the 
> License overview page.
> 
> Any other opinions on trademarks@?

Coming from the Trademarks side I could agree to a certain extent.
Looking at it from a user perspective, though, I disagree.

Consider this: Anne is interested in Sling and goes to sling.apache.org
and sees the License link. Fine, she has to check the license anyway, so
lets do it right away. But what's the license ? She's not interested in
the license history or any contributor stuff, she just wants to learn
about the applicable license.

Hence, I think TLP pages should really point to the actual license page
not the license overview page.

Regards
Felix

> 
> - Shane
> 
> Felix Meschberger wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > While trying to bing the Sling site up to speed with the branding
> > requirements [1] it occurred to me that the section "Website Navigation
> > Links" requires a License link as follows:
> > 
> >    "License" should link to: http://www.apache.org/licenses/
> > 
> > IMHO the "License" link should point to the actual license, which would
> > be http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 almost all the times.
> > 
> > Am I off-track ?
> > 
> > Thanks and Regards
> > Felix
> > 
> > 
> > [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs
> > 
> > (second try with the correct Trademarks PMC address)
>