On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:16:02 (CEST), Luca Barbato wrote: > --- > src/index | 5 +++-- > src/shame | 11 ++++++----- > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/src/index b/src/index > index 128fb57..20b4b06 100644 > --- a/src/index > +++ b/src/index > @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ on your choice of configuration options. If you use Libav > or its constituent > libraries, you <b>must</b> adhere to the terms of the license in question. > You can find basic compliance information and get licensing help on our > <a href="legal.html">license and legal considerations page</a>. > -Note that if you violate our license terms, we will track you down, list > -you on our <a href="shame.html">Hall of Shame</a> and eventually sue you. > +If you happen to violate our license terms, we will help you to address > +such issues. > +License violations are managed on our <a > href="http://bugzilla.libav.org";>bug tracker</a> and we keep a page with the > unresponsive <a href="/shame">violators</a> to make the public aware of them. > </p>
Hm, I agree that the previous text sounds pretty agressive, the new text is pretty much the opposite extreme. I would try something like this: Please note that because of GPL §4 (or LGPL §8), violating our license will terminate your rights to our work. However, we are happy to work with you to a solution should such a situation occur. > > <p> > diff --git a/src/shame b/src/shame > index fa68899..6ba3071 100644 > --- a/src/shame > +++ b/src/shame > @@ -4,15 +4,16 @@ LIBAV_LEGAL_NAVBAR > > <p> > This is a list of projects or companies violating Libav's license. The list > -is part of an effort to get them to comply with the licensing terms by > shaming > -them in public. > +is part of an effort to get the public aware of them. We hope that license > +violations could be amended quickly and move the software on our > +<a href="/fame">Hall of Fame</a> as soon as possible. > </p> We are working on settling violations quickly so that the software in question can be moved to our Hall of Fame as soon as possible. > <p> > A good way to help us is to link to this page, thereby boosting its > pagerank, possibly near or past the homepage of the offender. We discourage > -you from using or buying the software listed here, unless you do so to pester > -its producers and demand that they comply with the license of Libav. > +you from using or buying the software listed here, unless you do so to demand > +that they comply with the license of Libav. > </p> sounds okay. > <p> > @@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ Our issue tracker also contains a list of > If you become aware of license infringements, please notify us on the > <a href="contact.html">libav-devel mailing list</a> and/or add > it to our > -<a href="https://roundup.libav.org/";>issue tracker</a>. > +<a href="https://bugzilla.libav.org/";>issue tracker</a>. > </p> OK -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
