On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Engel Nyst <engel.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/06/2013 09:31 PM, Luis Villa wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Richard Fontana <font...@sharpeleven.org >> >wrote: >> >>> Maybe a link to the license steward's FAQ, if any (perhaps with some >>> >>> appropriate disclaimer that the OSI does not necessarily endorse >>> anything in such FAQs)? This will only be relevant to a few licenses but >>> some of them are among the more widely used ones. >>> >> >> >> Excellent point; added to the mockup. >> >> This somehow tipped it over the edge as too information-rich for me, so I >> tried out another mockup, posted here for your comments: >> >> http://wiki.opensource.org/license_improvement_sample_alternate >> >> > Oh, the alternate sample looks much cleaner to me. Sub-sections and simple > lists make it readable and it's helpfully organized. > Great. > I'm wondering though about the intended links to home and FAQ pages. I'm > not sure the license homepage is different than what counts as FAQ, it > seems they are different only for MPL and GPL. A license homepage is > already rare, and sometimes it's precisely meant as FAQ. > I think it may be helpful to do a second sample for a "minimal" license that has no FAQ, home page, etc., like http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause > If the license steward doesn't have a dedicated license page (other than > the text), like EPL, the closest to a license homepage would be the legal > page I assume...[1] However, it only has other Eclipse information and not > about the license. I'm not sure it helps. > I provisionally set EPL FAQ as homepage. I must misunderstand the > intention of the homepage placeholder, in my attempt to take MPL's as > example. MPL has a rich home. :) > No, I think in the EPL case, the FAQ is the right thing to link to. I think the key thing is to have the "most informative page about the license that is not the license itself"; whether that is a homepage or a FAQ doesn't matter that much; if it is both, no harm there either. Luis > > [1] http://www.eclipse.org/legal/ > > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@opensource.org > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss >
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