On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 19:17 +0100, Vladimir Savic wrote: > On 01/31/10 17:41, Robert Martinez wrote: > > Hi there,
> > I don't intend to start a flame war :) ... but isn't it technically > > even "free software"?! > > Free software is wider term then open source. Scribus is free open > source software, released under GPL license. > There's no reason why GPL software can't be labelled "Free and Open Source" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software The word 'free' may encourage take up among people who don't know/care what open source is. > > (I'm just curious if there are technical reasons or personal > > likes/dislikes to the term) > > I also think the slogan (no matter what slogan) does not need to be as > > prominent on the homepage as the actual name of the application. > > > > Funny enough, home page (www.scribus.net) is far from our (unwritten) > visual guidelines. Others, more frequently edited (wiki), are much > better... Yet, far from perfect. -- Gerard Cunningham Journalist Kildare town, Co Kildare
